INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

This article presents a brief history of intermodal transportation, in the United States, from its beginnings in the 1960s, when the use of trailer-sized containers began transforming the way freight is packed and loaded on trucks, ships, and trains, to the present day. It includes a discussion of freight transportation before the age of modalism. The article continues with a review of federal intervention and the rise of modalism, focussing on the topics of regulation, mobilization, and depression. The effects of containerization and deregulation on the development of intermodalism are covered in the article's final section.

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