Activities that involve or affect more than one mode of transportation, including transportation connections, choices, cooperation and coordination of various modes of transit. An intermodal or multimodal approach to transportation planning focuses on the most efficient way of getting people or goods from place to place by means other than privately owned vehicles (i.e., by bus, trolley, light rail, streetcar, cable car, and/or ferry system). In its broadest interpretation, intermodalism refers to a holistic view of transportation in which individual modes work together or within their own niches to provide users with the best choices of service, and in which the consequences on all modes are considered in the policies for each individual mode.