Airports; highways, bridges, tunnels, causeways; intermodal; rail (not including rapid transit); space; water (canals and waterways, locks, ports and container ports, ships); others, including futuristic

This paper proposes a new nationwide transportation grid for the US, G4. G4 is a fixed guideway for high-speed rail service. The paper uses four criteria. First, "Is it technically feasible?" It reviews the various technologies and concludes that neither conventional rail nor maglev could do the job and comes down for the high-speed monorail being developed in Colorado. Second, "Is it economically viable?" It examines how G4 could be financed and proposes a new financial instrument, FAT bonds, which would be serviced by a toll on the highways while monorail passengers ride free. Third, "Is it environmentally desirable?" It examines "good growth" that avoids sprawl and suggests high density developments in the empty space over existing highways, connected by the monorail. Fourth, "Is it politically achievable?" Finally, this paper examines who votes for transit - Democrats more than Republicans - and why, and then suggests how to win approval for G4.

The land from Battle Harbour in Labrador, on the North American continent, to Land’s End in Cornwall, England, is now nearly one continuous landmass, interrupted in only two places by narrow bodies of water. With one recently bridged by the Channel Tunnel between England and France, there is only one remaining linkage -- at the Bering Strait -- to be closed.
        For more than 16 years, the Interhemispheric Bering Strait Tunnel and Railway Group (IBSTRG), a non profit organization incorporated in Washington D.C. in 1991, has been working on a proposal to close this remaining gap by tunneling under the 47- mile-wide body of water at the Bering Strait.
        A tunnel under the Bering Strait would truly be a” bridge” into the future. Tunneling under the Bering Strait will make it possible to connect rail transport systems on four continents.

Think Big -- an Ubangi-Chari Hydro Tunnel to refill Lake Chad, irrigate the Sahara, induce North African climate change, and power and fund the Trans-African Rail Net. Snapshot: a sequenced series of megaprojects could help Africa achieve some part of its immense human, resource and trade potential.

To become a Global Super Project, there should be a gathering of transportation resources that connect continents. The Kanbraska® High Priority Corridor and the Wichita Spaceport Hub meets the intermodal and linking requirements of the National Highway System. In the greater operation of the corridor, a highway would link Asia-Alaska and the Gulf coast, continuing through Central And South America on the I-35 NAFTA Highway.

This dual carriageway will traverse the East Black Sea Region of Turkey. This will be the most important and international linking route from Sinop-Samsun-Trabzon to Sarp Border Gate and through Georgia and Azerbaijan, Turk Republics and Caucasian Countries. Traffic volume is high on this road. Annual average daily traffic is 20 000-25 000 in some sections and 75 000 in Trabzon.
        Up to now 140 km dual carriageway had been constructed and opened to traffic in 2000. The construction of the road is to be completed by the end of 2004.

The Global Rail Network in the 21st Century: the extension of rail infrastructure in the post-Cold War era for the distribution of strategic resources. How would you set out to develop a global transport policy for Planet Earth, Inc? How will the enormous transport flows of the 21st Century be facilitated in a way that is both logistically rational and ecologically sound? These are big questions that may have a big answer ... somewhere in the make-up of the emergent, multi-modal global transport system.

Long before the beginning of recorded history, men ventured as far as they could, limited only by the conveyances they had and the routes open to them. Using camel caravans and crude ships, they covered great distances and opened exciting new trading opportunities.
        So it is today. New routes now under development promise to give the people of the world unprecedented new opportunities to visit one another and trade. The Great Global Highway will make such dreams come true.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s commitment to providing “state-of-the- art” world-class airports, which can meet forecasted growth with high standards of customer service, is the drive behind our current capital improvement programs. A multi-billion dollar public/private development program is well underway at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York City – the largest airport construction program in United States history. [On Tuesday, October 09, 2001 AMR Corp.’s (AMR) American Airlines said it would accelerate construction of its 2.2 million-square-foot terminal expansion at JFK]. Improvements include new roadways and parking garages, and airline funds to redevelop each of JFK’s passenger terminals. This program includes approximately $1.9 billion for the AirTrain JFK light rail system.

The presentation shows how the deadline of the millennium has been met, when the odds were against the Project Team.

The paper is about a number of expressways built to serve the new airport of Hong Kong which commissioned its operation in 1998. The paper discusses about the reason to build the new airport. The project scope, benefits, cost, timeline, management organization as well as the method of procurement.

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