The Regional Rail Working Group also considers intercity rail freight and passenger systems, particularly as they relate to regional rail issues. RRWG Chair George Haikalis has long been involved in planning for these systems. Click here to read his paper Network Northeast written by for the Environmental Defense Fund in November 1993 and click here to read Planning a Nationwide Freight and Passenger Network written by Haikalis for an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) conference in October 1992.