Transport corridor
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A transportation corridor is a (generally linear) tract of land in which at least one main line for transport, be it road, rail or canal, has been built. Often new transport lines are built alongside existing ones to minimize the area affected by pollution.
See also
- Transportation Corridor AgenciesTransportation Corridor AgenciesTransportation Corridor Agencies are two joint powers authorities formed by the California legislature in 1986 to plan, finance, construct, and operate Orange County's toll roads...
- Pan-European corridorsPan-European corridorsThe ten Pan-European transport corridors were defined at the second Pan-European transport Conference in Crete, March 1994, as routes in Central and Eastern Europe that required major investment over the next ten to fifteen years. Additions were made at the third conference in Helsinki in 1997...
- Western Railway CorridorWestern Railway CorridorThe Western Railway Corridor , or Conair Iarnróid an Iarthair , in Ireland is a recent term for a mostly disused railway line running through the West of Ireland...
- Southeast High Speed Rail CorridorSoutheast High Speed Rail CorridorThe Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor is a passenger rail transportation project in the United States to extend high speed passenger rail services from Washington, DC south through Richmond and Petersburg in Virginia through Raleigh and Charlotte in North Carolina and connect with the existing...
- Bus laneBus laneA bus lane or bus only lane is a lane restricted to buses, and generally used to speed up public transport that would be otherwise held up by traffic congestion...