Rail education at Michigan Tech combines coursework, field trips, and research projects. Students can pursue internships, scholarships, and hands-on opportunities. The Rail Transportation Program (RTP ...

The Rail Transportation Program partners with other university programs and departments, with outside agencies and sources like MDOT and USDOT, other universities, and with industry partnerships like ...

Logistics is a complex and big business. From ports to yard-rail and and short-haul trucking to cross-country rail and long distance trucking - the amount of transfers from one mode of transport to ...

A new study by the Association of American Railroads (AAR) underscores the “substantial” economic impact of the rail transportation industry in the U.S. In 2023, the rail transportation sector ...

Railroad service was front and center at last week’s hearing hosted by the Surface Transportation Board (STB), an independent adjudicatory and economic-regulatory agency charged by Congress with ...

Longer trains have more cars, possibly a greater variety of car types and sizes, and more requirements for power distributed across the train in comparison with shorter manifest trains. Because of ...

Gary Frantz is a contributing editor for DC Velocity and its sister publication, Supply Chain Xchange. He is a veteran communications executive with more than 30 years of experience in the ...

Readers: This story was updated at 3 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 4, 2023 to correct the number of truck trips that could be eliminated by hydraulic removal of sediments at Woods Pond. LEE — A Housatonic ...