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- America's_Marine_Highway abstract "America's Marine Highway Program is a Department of Transportation (DOT) Initiative, aimed to utilize America's 29,000 miles of navigable waterways, to alleviate traffic and wear to the nation's highways caused by tractor trailer traffic. In 2007 Congress included provisions to Federal Law 110-140, to 'Offer a waterborne alternative to available land-side transportation services using documented Vessels' and 'Provide transportation services for passengers or freight (or both) that may reduce congestion on land-side infrastructure using documented vessels.' As the United States' population grows, its need to transport freight within its borders also grows. This increases the need for fossil fuels and damages the nation's highways. It is estimated that in 2008, 3.7 billion hours were lost and 2.3 billion gallons of fuel were spent in traffic jams by Americans. Alongside grass-roots efforts to reduce this congestion and greenhouse gas, such as the idea of 'buying local,' the federal government is looking to its navigable waterways to help alleviate the problem.Research has shown that transporting by barge or ship is the most fuel-efficient method of transporting goods(per Ton-Mile), being over 8 times more efficient than tractor-trailers and double what is achievable by rail. It also does not face the transportation limits truckers face in 'hours driving.' A teamster is only allowed to be on the road 11 hours out of 21, this drops their average speed effectively in half, when transiting more than 600 miles. A Teamsters daily ranges is also dependent on highway traffic congestion and bottlenecks (such as weigh-stations and toll booths) whereby their daily range could be even less.".
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- America's_Marine_Highway subject Category:United_States_Department_of_Transportation.
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- America's_Marine_Highway comment "America's Marine Highway Program is a Department of Transportation (DOT) Initiative, aimed to utilize America's 29,000 miles of navigable waterways, to alleviate traffic and wear to the nation's highways caused by tractor trailer traffic.".
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