Download or read book Railroads Freight and Public Policy written by Theodore E. Keeler and published by Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution. This book was released on 1983 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines railroad regulation and public policy regarding the freight industry.
Download or read book U S Freight Rail Economics and Policy written by Jeffrey Macher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passage of the Staggers Rail Act in 1980 led brought a renaissance to the freight rail industry. In the decade following, economists documented the effects of the Act on a variety of important economic metrics including prices, costs, and productivity. Over the preceding years, and with the return of the industry to more stable footing, attention to the industry by economists faded. The lack of attention, however, has not been due to a dearth of ongoing economic and policy issues that continue to confront the industry. In this volume, we begin to rectify this inattention. Rather than retread older analyses or provide yet another look at the consequences of Staggers, we assemble a collection of ten chapters in four sections that collectively provide fresh and up-to-date analyses of the economic issues and policy challenges the industry faces: the first section sets the context through foundational discussion of freight rail; the second section highlights the role of freight rail in an increasingly interrelated economy; the third section examines industry structure and scope in freight rail; and the fourth section assesses current regulatory challenges that confront freight rail. This book will be of great value to researchers, academics, policymakers, and students interested in the fields of freight rail economics and policy, transportation, business history, and regulatory economics.
Download or read book Railroad Transportation and Public Policy written by James C. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railroad Situation written by United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economic Effects of Surface Freight Deregulation written by Clifford Winston and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For close to 100 years, America's surface freight industries, primarily rail and trucking, operated under the protective wing of the U.S. government. In 1980 Congress, finding vast inefficiencies in the two industries, substantially deregulated both, opening them at last to market competition. Deregulation has brought with it many changes—for firms within the industries, for their labor force, and for shippers and their customers. Clifford Winston, Thomas M. Corsi, Curtis M. Grimm, and Carol A Evans provide a comprehensive evaluation of the effect of the deregulation legislation on the rail and trucking industries. According to the authors, deregulation has made substantial progress in solving the two most vexing problems of the surface freight transportation industry—excessive rates in the trucking industry and insufficient returns on investment in the rail industry. Competition and efficiency have returned to both industries, and although the labor force in each has suffered wage and job losses, shippers and their customers have gained roughly $20 billion a year in benefits. The authors recommend policies that would continue to promote competition and the efficient use of highway and railway infrastructure.
Download or read book The Best Transportation System in the World written by Mark H. Rose and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the role of government in organizing the nation's transportation industries. As the authors show, over the course of the twentieth century transportation in the United States was as much a product of hard-fought politics, lobbying, and litigation as it was a naturally evolving system of engineering and available technology.
Download or read book Freight Rail Policy Plan written by Wisconsin. Department of Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Policy and the Railway Problem written by George E. Tubman and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transportation Conditions and National Transportation Policy The present day railroad problem by F G Gurley written by Association of American Railroads and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transportation Conditions and National Transportation Policy Discriminatory subsidies and unequal legislation by R B White written by Association of American Railroads and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroad Regulation and Deregulation Controversy written by Felix Chin and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Railroad Policy written by Jeffrey R. Orenstein and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government Regulation of Railway Rates written by Hugo Richard Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Railroads written by Robert E. Gallamore and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once an icon of American industry, railroads fell into a long decline beginning around the turn of the twentieth century. Overburdened with regulation and often displaced by barge traffic on government-maintained waterways, trucking on interstate highways, and jet aviation, railroads measured their misfortune in lost market share, abandoned track, bankruptcies, and unemployment. Today, however, as Robert Gallamore and John Meyer demonstrate, rail transportation is reviving, rescued by new sources of traffic and advanced technology, as well as less onerous bureaucracy. In 1970, Congress responded to the industry's plight by consolidating most passenger rail service nationwide into Amtrak. But private-sector freight service was left to succeed or fail on its own. The renaissance in freight traffic began in 1980 with the Staggers Rail Act, which allowed railroad companies to contract with customers for services and granted freedom to set most rates based on market supply and demand. Railroads found new business hauling low-sulfur coal and grain long distances in redesigned freight cars, while double-stacked container cars moved a growing volume of both international and domestic goods. Today, trains have smaller crews, operate over better track, and are longer and heavier than ever before. Near the end of the twentieth century, after several difficult but important mergers, privately owned railroads increased their investments in safe, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly freight transportation. American Railroads tells a riveting story about how this crucial U.S. industry managed to turn itself around.
Download or read book Transportation Conditions and National Transportation Policy written by J. Carter Fort and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transportation Conditions and National Transportation Policy written by Association of American Railroads and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The High Cost of Conflicting Public Transportation Policies written by Association of American Railroads and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
