摘要：The Prentice/Wilson paper provides an excellent overview of the current transportation environments in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Inconsistent policies between and within countries highlight the transportation discontinuities that must be overcome to provide a seamless transportation network for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) trade flows. Clearly, the transportation industry is positioning itself to take advantage of potential traffic growth spawned by NAFTA. For example, the Canadian National Railway (CN) and Illinois Central (IC) recently announced an alliance with the Kansas City Southern Railroad (KCS). These three companies are trying to capture a portion of the 11 to 14 percent North- South freight growth which has been stimulated by NAFTA. Cross-border trade growth under NAFTA was also cited as a possible savior for the downtrodden barge industry and as a rationalization for the recently announced venture between American Commercial Lines (ACL) and the Vectura Group, Inc. (Mathews 1998).
