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		<title>What TIGER Tells Us</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/02/23/the-tiger-tells-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not that Tiger.
The eagerly awaited TIGER grants were announced last week.  An experiment in government.  Against their better judgment members of the House and Senate gave $1.5 billion to the Administration and left it to the discretion of USDOT program managers, modal administrators, the Secretary (and perhaps the White House, just in case) to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=626&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toward Developing MTS Related Policy</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/02/15/toward-developing-mts-related-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/02/15/toward-developing-mts-related-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MTS Policy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting the USDOT leadership in front of an audience has become a bit of a tradition each January.   Most of the brass, sans Secretary LaHood, appeared en panel at the recent TRB annual convention.  The policy and modal chiefs offered brief overviews as to what is on their plates.  Here are notes from two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=621&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Maritime Administrator</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/01/27/the-next-maritime-administrator/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/01/27/the-next-maritime-administrator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Government]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=617</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Matsuda &#8211;the President&#8217;s pick to serve as Maritime Administrator&#8211;is ready to serve.
He returned to familiar turf this week when he appeared at his nomination hearing.  He worked for the same committee that will be voting on his nomination.  His work in the Senate had to do with railroads, ports, transit, trucking and aviation.  He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=617&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CAFE for Ships?</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/01/20/cafe-for-ships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The liner shipping industry, through its World Shipping Council, has proposed a regime for improving ocean-going vessel emissions worldwide.  It&#8217;s a good move.  The WSC considered what proposals were already on the table&#8211;fuel tax and emissions trading system&#8211;and offered something different and credible.
The Vessel Efficiency System (VES) takes a cue from regulatory regimes like American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=613&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Grass is Greener &#8212; Pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/01/19/the-grass-is-greener-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/01/19/the-grass-is-greener-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intermodal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[asia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Envy is a perfectly serviceable starting point for developing national transportation policy.  Our new high-speed rail program is an apt example.  It’s a Euro-inspired, greenish gleam in a candidate’s eye made billion-dollar real by our new president and the stimulus package.  While we wait for our first bullet-ride to Disney World or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=606&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Opportunity in Obstacles</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/01/14/the-opportunity-in-obstacles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Highway]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Kruse and colleagues at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI)  completed a study that identifies obstacles to marine highway development.  It&#8217;s a good report.  At least I can say that the presentation I saw last evening outlined a lot of useful information.  The report itself is not yet available.
I can&#8217;t wait to read about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=600&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green Move at FMC</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/01/08/green-move-at-fmc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Maritime Commission has formed a Maritime Environmental Advisory Committee.  This isn't fresh news--the FMC announced the action last November--but it's still worth noting.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=587&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mile Markers on the Marine Highway</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/12/18/mile-markers-on-the-marine-highway/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/12/18/mile-markers-on-the-marine-highway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intermodal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the notion of American marine highways helping to mitigate landside congestion took root early this decade&#8211;along with the call for Federal policy and program&#8211;voices have been heard to ask, &#8220;so, where is it?&#8221;   &#8220;What happened to those promised new short sea services?&#8221;  Why isn&#8217;t [big box retailer] using coastal shipping?
Cynics who habitually dismiss [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=573&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Jobs Initiative: Meaning in Missing Words?</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/12/08/obama-jobs-initiative-meaning-in-missing-words/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/12/08/obama-jobs-initiative-meaning-in-missing-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is what is in the president&#8217;s jobs proposal announced today with respect to infrastructure investment:
2. Investing in America’s Roads, Bridges and Infrastructure
Additional investment in highways, transit, rail, aviation and water. The President is calling for new investments in a wide range of infrastructure, designed to get out the door as quickly as possible while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=565&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Industry Knew and Congress Didn&#8217;t Want to Hear</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/12/04/what-the-industry-knew-and-congress-didnt-want-to-hear/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/12/04/what-the-industry-knew-and-congress-didnt-want-to-hear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A General Accountability Office (GAO) report and the testimony of the Secretary Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security were the centerpiece of a Senate hearing on transportation security two days ago.  The report covered several issues but one was of particular interest:  How well Customs and Border Protection is implementing a congressional mandate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=557&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rail + Road + Water = Surface Freight System</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/12/01/rail-road-water-surface-freight-system/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/12/01/rail-road-water-surface-freight-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Efficiency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) released a study in November comparing truck and rail fuel efficiency.  It&#8217;s an update of a 1991 FRA report.
The new study identifies rail as more efficient.  No surprise there.
The report, Comparative Evaluation of Rail and Truck Fuel Efficiency on Competitive Corridors (November 19, 2009), should be useful to Secretary Ray LaHood [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=544&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vision Ingredients (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/11/28/vision-ingredients-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking of George H. W. Bush can conger up a few unfortunate (for him), lasting images. For me it&#8217;s the former president&#8217;s food judgments (pork rinds good/broccoli bad), his unfamiliarity with the price of  milk, and Dana Carvey&#8217;s exaggerated but dead-on impersonation.  Then there was, &#8220;oh, the vision thing.&#8221;  It sounded like he thought it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=534&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California Trailblazing to a Miami Tunnel</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/11/17/california-trailblazing-to-a-miaimi-tunnel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When earth was turned in 1997 for the Alameda Corridor project in the San Pedro Bay port region more than one kind of ground breaking was occurring.  The Port of Miami is a beneficiary.
In freight transportation policy circles the Alameda Corridor project one day may be legend.  The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=506&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Connective Tissue of a Nation</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/11/17/the-connective-tissue-of-a-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can’t thrive as a nation while New Orleans is drowning&#8230;and cities in upstate New York and the Rust Belt are rotting from lack of employment opportunities, and so on.   Imagine, instead, an America with rebuilt, healthy, dynamic metropolitan areas, and gleaming new port facilities, and networks of high-speed rail, an America with electric vehicles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=516&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping the &#8220;Hidden Highway&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/11/13/mapping-the-hidden-highway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When someone talks about &#8220;keeping ships from turning into shipwrecks&#8221; we all probably could agree that&#8217;s a worthwhile use of tax dollars.
The fellow whose job it has been to map the coastal waters where ships ply the &#8220;hidden highway&#8221; is Captain Steve Barnum, who retired this year NOAA after 29 years.  He most recently headed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=508&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ports on the Secretary&#8217;s To-Do List</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/11/08/ports-on-the-secretarys-to-do-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DOT Secretary&#8217;s blog&#8211;Fast Lane&#8211;noted this past Thursday that &#8220;port managers have a difficult dual mission to fulfill-–providing the critical interface between water and surface transportation, while handling both commercial and military cargo.&#8221;  The prior day he met with the National Port Readiness Network, including some port representatives.
Secretary Ray LaHood acknowledged in his blog that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=500&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting an ! on Intermodal</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/11/06/putting-an-on-intermodal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been talked about for a while but the talking is over.  J.B. Hunt Transport Services did a major deal with Norfolk Southern Railway.  According to the Journal of Commerce (November 6, 2009):

Hunt said the accord “will further establish the parties as the leading providers of transcontinental and local intermodal service in the eastern half [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=491&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hours on the Road, Time on the Water</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/11/06/hours-on-the-road-time-on-the-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rules of the road will help define the market for marine highway services.   A prime example is the Hours-of-Service (HOS) regulation that limits the time truck drivers can spend behind the wheel.  These are excerpts from American Shipper of October 29, 2009.  (The links are mine.)

The U.S. Department of Transportation and its Federal Motor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=476&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Next WRDA a Policy Bill?</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/11/03/next-wrda-a-policy-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
WRDA (say &#8220;wurr-da&#8221;) sometimes is an elusive, even mythical, thing.  When it appears out of the Capitol Hill mist&#8211;like Brigadoon&#8211;it&#8217;s not with the reliable&#8211;albeit once-in-a-hundred years&#8211;clockwork of that fabled village.   It is usually defined as a biennial water resources authorization bill but it rarely takes such predictable, finished form as a president might come to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=457&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short Sea Grants on the Horizon</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/10/29/short-sea-grants-on-the-horizon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2007 Congress approved marine highways as a new policy direction in a measure signed into law by President George W. Bush.  The Secretary of Transportation &#8220;shall designate short sea transportation routes as extensions of the surface transportation system&#8230;&#8221; and is authorized to &#8220;designate&#8221; short sea transportation projects.
Yesterday President Barack Obama signed a bill containing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&blog=8522093&post=453&subd=mtsmatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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