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Abstract
This report examines the potential role of a new form of transportation intermodal truck-rail container transportation in the state's expanding manufacturing and value-added agricultural base. It explores the general advantages of intermodal container transportation, examines factors that make intermodal container transportation successful, examines functions performed by successful intermodal facilities, evaluates characteristics of various locations that are desirable for an intermodal facility, estimates potential traffic volumes and other characteristics of various North Dakota locations where such a facility might be located and explores funding options for an intermodal facility.
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