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Florida's Strategic Intermodal System (SIS) is a transportation system that . . .
- Is made up of facilities and services of statewide and interregional significance (strategic)
- Contains all forms of transportation for moving both people and goods, including linkages that provide for smooth and efficient transfers between modes and major facilities (intermodal)
- Integrates individual facilities, services, forms of transportation (modes) and linkages into a single, integrated transportation network (system)
The SIS was established to . . .
- Efficiently serve the mobility needs of Florida's citizens, businesses, and visitors; and
- Help Florida become a worldwide economic leader, enhance economic prosperity and competitiveness, enrich quality of life, and reflect responsible environmental stewardship.
The current designated SIS is a network of high-priority transportation facilities which . . .
- Includes the state's largest and most significant commercial service airports, spaceport, deepwater seaports, freight rail terminals, passenger rail and intercity bus terminals, rail corridors, waterways and highways; and
- Carries more than 99 percent of all commercial air passengers and cargo, virtually all waterborne freight and cruise passengers, almost all rail freight, 89 percent of all interregional rail and bus passengers, and 55 percent of total traffic and more than 70 percent of all truck traffic on the State Highway System.
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