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Network Appalachia: Freight, Trade, and Economic Development

          This research report, commissioned by the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Network Appalachia multimodal transportation advisory group, provides an assessment of the freight network in Appalachia and the global context that surrounds it. This report is an update of the 2010 Network Appalachia: Access to Global Opportunity report and maps freight network...
    
    
    
    
          ReportTrends and Impacts of Local Access Road Investment in Appalachia: An Evaluation Report of ARC’s Local Access Road Program

          This report presents a study to evaluate trends and impacts of investments in the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Local Access Road (LAR) Program using available project data and surveys conducted in this study covering the projects completed from 2001 through 2020. Information about 135 federally funded LAR projects was obtained from...
    
    
    
    
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    Traffic Safety in Appalachia

          This research report, commissioned by the Appalachian Regional Commission, seeks to define the traffic safety culture in Appalachia and discusses the causes of the common safety problems in the Region. Drivers in Appalachia must contend with environmental concerns, including expansive rural regions, mountainous and curved terrain, and dense forests exposed...
    
    
    
    
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    Public Transportation in Appalachia – Inventory and Assessment

          This research report, commissioned by the Appalachian Regional Commission, documents the extent to which existing transit services are adequately creating or enhancing access for disadvantaged populations in Appalachia, particularly those in rural Appalachia. The report also documents current best transportation practices across the Region and explores how transportation intersects with...
    
    
    
    
          ReportAccess in Appalachia

          This study, commissioned by the Appalachian Regional Commission, analyzes how transportation options, and lack thereof, can impact economic development and access to services across the Region. The report understands transportation accessibility as the ability of people and businesses to access desired and needed activities, services, and goods within existing transportation...
    
    
    
    
          ReportAn Economic Analysis of the Appalachian Coal Industry Ecosystem

          This January 2018 series of five ARC-commissioned reports explores some of the current and potential impacts of Appalachia’s declining coal production on elements of the coal ecosystem.
    
    
    
    
          ReportEconomic Analysis of Completing the Appalachian Development Highway System: Technical Report

          This report is the second volume of a study that analyzed the effect of ADHS development on economic growth in Appalachia, and the future economic benefits and costs of completing the system.
    
    
    
    
          ReportAccess vs. Isolation: Preserving Appalachia’s Rail Connectivity in the 21st Century

          This report examines the effect of reductions in coal production on Appalachia’s current and future rail freight transportation network and highlights opportunities to help ensure rail connectivity to markets essential to Appalachia’s economic success.
    
    
    
    
          ReportAppalachian Development Highway System Economic Analysis Study: Synthesis of Findings to Date

          This report reviews and summarizes the findings of previously published studies on the impacts of the Appalachian Development Highway System on economic growth and transportation connectivity in Appalachia.
    
    
    
    
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    Trade, Freight and Economic Development in Appalachia

          This 2012 research report, commissioned by the Appalachian Regional Commission presents information related to goods movement, trade, freight volumes and the economic impact of the Appalachian Development Highway System (ADHS), a 3,090-mile interstate highway system composed of 31 individual corridors.  The ADHS was designed to stimulate socioeconomic development throughout the...
    
    
    
    
          ReportEconomic Impact of Rockslides in Tennessee and North Carolina

          This study estimates the economic impacts of two major rockslides in southwestern North Carolina and southeastern Tennessee during the fall of 2009 that resulted in the closure of sections of Interstate 40 and U.S. Route 63.
    
    
    
    
          ReportNetwork Appalachia: Access to Global Opportunity

          Report on the research and recommendations of the Network Appalachia Study Group on how to develop a twenty-first century transportation network in Appalachia that would maximize economic and employment benefits to the Region.
    
    
    
    
          ReportEconomic Impact Study of Completing the Appalachian Development Highway System

          This study assesses the travel performance, trade, and economic development impacts directly related to completing the Appalachian Development Highway System (ADHS).
    
    
    
    
          ReportSources of Regional Growth in Non-Metro Appalachia

          The Sources of Growth project is part of a series of research efforts funded by the Appalachian Regional Commission to improve understanding of factors affecting economic growth in rural and distressed areas.
    
    
    
    
          ReportMeeting the Transportation Challenges of the 21st Century: Report #4: Economic Benefits of Intermodal Efficiencies

          The purpose of the current analysis is to provide some insight into the potential benefits of intermodal investment in the ARC Region, rather than serve as a major investment study.
    
    
    
    
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