Transportation and logistics in the tri-state region

This chapter focuses on the region’s transportation and logistics functions. This major continent-wide player in passenger air travel, air cargo, railways and trucking generates significant employment and value-added activity. The chapter suggests that the state of the hub’s economic health should be of concern not only to local and state-level stakeholders but to the US federal government as well. The hub faces serious challenges – space constraints, congestion, financing issues and poorly integrated, region-wide planning to sustain its capacity to contribute meaningfully to regional and national growth. The chapter outlines the need for greater planning and co-operation among stakeholders. Key players from the various transportation modes and industrial sub-sectors making up the hub need to work together across state lines to drive interstate collaboration in the form of a comprehensive Tri- State inter-modal plan.