The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Port Authority) plays a vital role in the economy of the nation's largest metropolitan area, managing an array of airports, ports, and bridge, tunnel and transit facilities that are among the world's most heavily used. For more than a decade, the Port Authority has dedicated enormous effort and resources to the rebirth of the World Trade Center site. That rebirth is now a reality and the Port Authority must recommit itself to its core mission of facilitating transit through the region for commuters, visitors, and cargo carriers. As this report shows, the Port Authority must utilize the most advanced engineering, financial and managerial approaches available. Includes recommendations. Figures. This is a print on demand report.

Excerpt from The Plan of the Port Authority of New York for Future Port Development: Public Opinion Upon Its Adoption as Expressed by Commercial and Civic Organizations and the Press Together With a Few Facts Regarding the World's Greatest Port; January 1922 There are plans for the extensive use of motor trucks in distribution, which will be facilitated by the employment of the most modern labor-saving de vices for the loading and unloading of goods. System will be substituted for chaos. Delays in delivery will be vastly diminished, costs reduced, swift ness and certainty of commodity interchanges promoted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.