Federal Actions Needed To Retain Essential Defense Rail Service

Abstract

Many defense mobilization movements in the United States will depend on low volume branch rail lines that are potential candidates for abandonment. During mobilization, these lines are expected to handle large volumes of traffic. Defense essentiality, however, does not assure retention of these lines. The Departments of Defense and Transportation need to resolve the apparent conflict between the national economic policy and the needs of national defense to assure essential defense rail service is retained. Also, the Secretary of Defense needs to better determine what defense rail capabilities should be improved.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 20, 1983
Accession Number
AD1176648

Entities

People

  • Donald J. Horan

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Accounting
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Economic Development
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Logistics
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • National Transportation System
  • Rail Transportation
  • Transportation
  • Transportation Infrastructure
  • United States
  • United States Government

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