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Abstract
This paper presents a case analysis of multimodalism in transportation investment decision making
as it relates to other policy decisions, including infrastructure ownership structures, geographic
scales, and revenue sources. This allows a more complete understanding of multimodalism’s
benefits, drawbacks, and opportunities. Private infrastructure developers are more likely to evaluate
and select investments in a multimodal fashion than either the public sector or public-private
partnerships. Decentralized, municipal decision making tends to reduce barriers to multimodalism,
although with reduced capacity for large-scale project implementation. Experience suggests that
the source of transportation revenues is a less important influence on multimodalism than the
organizations collecting them.