OTPa Freight System Action Plan

OnTrackPennsylvania represents a shift—from discussing the need for coordinated transportation planning—to actually designing, committing to, and implementing an optimal freight transportation Action Plan. This Action Plan will be built the only way it can for a plan this important to work—by those needed to implement the plan collaborating alongside all those who are affected by it, i.e. transportation providers, shippers, developers, planners, suppliers, funders, and citizens.

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GAO 09 282: Report on Liability and Indemnity of Commuter Rail Operations

Date:

02/2009

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Document provides examples of how liability insurance is shared between freight rail, passenger rail and Amtrak. Each state has laws that dictate the liability and indemnity (security against loss) that is allowable for contracts for locations that share rail Right of Way. This report highlights the insurance burden (or lack) of freight rail. More states are intervening in the contract negotiation process to share rail right of way. Many of the anticipated liability and indemnity contracts include strategies for insurance investments.

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GAO-09-282.pdf	1.84 MB