Draft Highway Primary Freight Network Maps and Tables - FHWA Freight Management and Operations. The purpose of this web site is to publish the draft initial designation of the Highway Primary Freight Network (PFN) as required by Title 23 United States Code Section 167(d) National freight policy [PDF 134KB], and provide graphical information regarding the designation of the PFN as a complement to the information provided on the Federal Register notice. Federal Register Notices November 19, 2013 – Designation of the Primary Freight Network - Notice; Request for Comments [HTML, PDF 232KB] December 11, 2013 – Designation of the Primary Freight Network - Notice of extension of deadline and comment period [HTML, PDF 192KB] UPDATE: January 21, 2014 – Designation of the Primary Freight Network - Notice of extension of deadline and comment period.
[HTML, PDF 191KB] - Comments must be received on or before February 15, 2014. USDOT Press Release November 18, 2013 – U.S. Ed Strocko 202-366-2997Ed.Strocko@dot.gov Coral Torres 202-366-7602Coral.Torres@dot.gov. Jgrd. Black Carbon and Warming: It’s Worse than We Thought by Carl Zimmer: Yale Environment 360. 17 Jan 2013: Analysis by carl zimmer It rises from the chimneys of mansions and from simple hut stoves. It rises from forest fires and the tail pipes of diesel-fueled trucks rolling down the highway, and from brick kilns and ocean liners and gas flares. Every day, from every occupied continent, a curtain of soot rises into the sky. What soot does once it reaches the atmosphere has long been a hard question to answer. It’s not that scientists don’t know anything about the physics and chemistry of atmospheric soot. To get a clear sense of soot — which is known to scientists as black carbon — an international team of 31 atmospheric scientists has worked for the past four years to analyze all the data they could.
The new estimate of black carbon’s heat-trapping power is twice that made by the IPCC. Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution for Oceanography, an expert on atmospheric chemistry who was not involved in the study. Soot is made up of tiny dark particles. How can this be? Air Quality | Johnson County Kansas. DomesticMitigationofBlackCarbon.pdf. NorthPoint Development | Logistics Park Kansas City. Central Location for Efficient Transportation • Reduce transportation costs through lower drayage charges and more truck turns • You will burn less fuel and reduce carbon footprint • Competitive cost per square foot Logistics Park Kansas City: A Smart Move • Centrally located in America’s Heartland • Served by BNSF Railway – serving all points throughout the United States • 558-acre logistics park capable of handling seven million square feet of buildings • Three million SF will be rail served • BNSF’s newest state-of-the-art Intermodal Facility • Competitive option to optimize the global supply chain LPKC: Features and Benefits • 443 Acres • 500,000+ annual unit capacity* • 48,000 feet of track (six 8,000-foot strip tracks) • 1,810 paved parking spaces • 4,300 container stacking spots • Five wide-span all-electric cranes * 1.5 million unit capacity at full build-out Kansas City: The Transportation Advantage.
Railroads in Olathe | City of Olathe. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) has two mainline rail tracks and one connection track in Olathe. The BNSF West Tracks are a portion of the Emporia Subdivision/Transcontinental Rail Line moving approximately 88 trains per day through Olathe. These tracks are carrying freight from the ports of Los Angeles and Longbeach, California to Chicago, Illinois, host to the largest rail yards in the United States. While it is physically possible to construct an elevated rail grade separation for these tracks the cost is very high due to lack of right-of-way and the number of homes and businesses in the area that would have to be acquired by the City.
Until funding can be identified, a grade separation project for the West Tracks is not scheduled. The BNSF East Tracks are a portion of the Fort Scott Subdivision Rail Line moving approximately 52 long, slow trains per day from the coal fields in Montana/Wyoming to power plants in the Southern United States.
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