Toll Roads for Trains
Toll Roads for Trains (TRT) is a plan for effective passenger and freight rail transportation in the US. The current system of integrated ownership of infrastructure and service creates local and regional monopolies that limit service, have a negative effect on rail safety, and encourage growth of highway transportation.
Although rail transportation can be an effective climate emergency response, the current business arrangement of rail transportation limits the effectiveness.
The supply chain is affected by the way that the railroad industry uses its regional and local monopoly position to limit rail traffic and encourage trucking.
TRT provides federal government control of the rail system without formal nationalization and acquisition of railroad property.
The TRT concept allows any qualified business to pursue rail transportation by purchasing schedules (reservations for time and route) and operating trains. Rail freight companies may be formed and operated as easily as trucking companies. New and improved rail passenger service may be implemented more easily and quickly than possible in the current arrangement.
This 17 page pdf format booklet describes the concept and the reasons that it is needed.