Reconnecting America's Transportation Networks seeks to integrate our separate aviation, rail and intercity bus systems into an interconnected network in order to improve economic productivity, enhance consumer choice and value, and improve environmental performance and energy efficiency. Through this initiative, Reconnecting America is working to redefine national policies for intercity travel with the intent of creating a more financially stable interconnected network for long distance travel – one that transforms airports and downtown train stations into travelports, where travelers can make convenient connections to air, higher speed rail or high quality bus service to complete their journeys. The development of a coordinated systems approach will help to solve the financial crisis plaguing the airline, rail and travel industries in a way that improves economic and environmental efficiency and promotes consumer choice. Toward this end, Reconnecting America has been engaged in research, public education and communications.