The phrase "an intermodal facility" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a transportation hub that facilitates the transfer of cargo between different modes of transport, such as rail, road, and sea.
Example: "The new intermodal facility will significantly improve the efficiency of freight transport in the region."
Alternatives: "a multimodal terminal" or "a transport interchange".
And I'm going to let everybody know that an intermodal facility is going to be coming".
"Since 2000 we've known there was an intermodal facility proposed for that site," he said.
Most spills in Los Angeles occurred within 2 km of an intermodal facility.
In 1998, $27 million for an intermodal facility was appropriated from Congress; an additional $6.7 million came from state and local funding.
And on Long Island, residents are asking the state of New York to reconsider its plans to build an intermodal facility near residential communities and a wildlife preserve.
Jeffrey A. Warsh, New Jersey Transit's executive director, said the transit village program in South Amboy "affords us an opportunity to create a viable intermodal facility in a densely populated and transit-hungry area".
In Arizona, a school superintendent has asked officials not to enact zoning changes that would allow construction of a major intermodal facility (a railyard at which cargo is transferred between trucks and trains) across the street from a local elementary school.
The railroad company Union Pacific is building a $370 million intermodal facility on 3,900 acres outside Peoria that is set to open this year.
The iPort 12 International Trade and Logistics Center, a huge "intermodal" facility only four miles from the Port of Newark, finally found its first tenant in August, almost two years after construction was finished.
Some planners and environmental groups argue that a new intermodal facility on Chicago's South Side — where barge cargo would be loaded onto trucks or trains for delivery to industries in Indiana — would allow the waterways to be disconnected from Lake Michigan.
Norfolk Southern operates a large intermodal facility in Columbus as part of their "Heartland Corridor," which the company recently constructed.
