Logistics: Rails/Roads/Ports/Parks, LLC (R2P2)

Insight delivers investment-grade economic impact analyses for the logistics sector, focusing on rails, roads, airports, seaports, and industrial parks (R²P²).  Comprehensive impact analysis illustrates the full range of a project’s direct, indirect, and induced benefits, supporting informed decision-making and helping to sustain economic growth.

Extending beyond the immediate disruptions of logistics construction, Insight’s analysis demonstrates how improvements can enhance safety, mobility, and economic activity while quantifying the value of reduced incidents and maintenance costs to the public.

Insight’s clients include all Class I Railroads in North America and several bullet train prototypes.  The firm has deep experience in the unique tax laws that apply to the rail and utility industries.  Project examples include over 600 rail improvements and intermodal facilities throughout the US, as well as large-scale rail projects that highlight the state and local tax impacts, including the multi-jurisdictional, system-wide improvements of CSX’s National Gateway and NS’s Crescent Corridor.

Highway and tolled project examples include economic comparisons of alignment configurations for Texas SH-130; enhanced benefits to multiple cities along a $1.7 billion freeway corridor reconstruction; and more than 35 tollway projects in multiple states.

Airports, seaports, inland ports, and industrial parks are vital catalysts for supply chains, creating jobs, supporting quality of life, and generating tax revenue opportunities.  Project examples include port improvements to the Port of Baltimore, MD; land use issues for DFW International and Dulles Airport; “through-the-fence” airport freight improvements; and tax revenue generation analyses for the commercial, aviation, and retail uses of airports.