Transportation in Alabama

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Transportation in Alabama
Overview
Transit typeRapid transit, commuter rail, buses, private automobile, Taxicab, bicycle, pedestrian
Operation
Operator(s)Alabama Department of Transportation

The transportation system of Alabama is a cooperation of complex systems of infrastructure.

Background

History

Highways

Alabama is criss-crossed by many major roadways.

Interstate Highways

Current

U.S. Highways

State Highways

Port Infrastructure

Seaports

The Port of Mobile, Alabama's only saltwater port, is a busy seaport on the Gulf of Mexico with inland waterway access to the Midwest by way of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. The Port of Mobile is currently the 9th-largest by tonnage in the United States.[1]

Barge transportation in and out of the Port of Tuscaloosa and other commercial navigation make the Black Warrior River useful in the state of Alabama.

Airports

Current, future and proposed projects

It is 2012

See also

References

  1. ^ "WATERBORNE COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES" (PDF). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Waterborne Commerce Statistics. p. 90. Retrieved 2010-03-08.