Download or read book Current Amtrak Issues written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Governance Issues at Amtrak written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Amtrak Issues written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Issues in Evaluating Amtrak written by Jimmy Butler and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amtrak America s Railroad written by Geoffrey H. Doughty and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the story of Amtrak, America's Railroad, 50 years in the making. In 1971, in an effort to rescue essential freight railroads, the US government founded Amtrak. In the post–World War II era, aviation and highway development had become the focus of government policy in America. As rail passenger services declined in number and in quality, they were simultaneously driving many railroads toward bankruptcy. Amtrak was intended to be the solution. In Amtrak, America's Railroad: Transportation's Orphan and Its Struggle for Survival, Geoffrey H. Doughty, Jeffrey T. Darbee, and Eugene E. Harmon explore the fascinating history of this popular institution and tell a tale of a company hindered by its flawed origin and uneven quality of leadership, subjected to political gamesmanship and favoritism, and mired in a perpetual philosophical debate about whether it is a business or a public service. Featuring interviews with former Amtrak presidents, the authors examine the current problems and issues facing Amtrak and their proposed solutions. Created in the absence of a comprehensive national transportation policy, Amtrak manages to survive despite inherent flaws due to the public's persistent loyalty. Amtrak, America's Railroad is essential reading for those who hope to see another fifty years of America's railroad passenger service, whether they be patrons, commuters, legislators, regulators, and anyone interested in railroads and transportation history.
Download or read book Amtrak written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO discussed issues pertaining to Amtrak's reauthorization, focusing on: (1) Amtrak's likely revenues and expenses over the next few years; (2) its effort to improve efficiency; (3) potential changes to the scope of Amtrak's mission; and (4) potential cost savings through legislative changes governing labor protection. GAO noted that: (1) Amtrak expects to increase its market share of the Northeast Corridor by implementing its high-speed rail service; (2) to realize these and other expectations, Amtrak will need about $5 billion in capital funding through the year 2010; (3) compensating the freight railroads for their liability exposure in accidents involving Amtrak passenger trains could increase Amtrak's costs; (4) the freight railroads and Amtrak want Congress to enact legislation that would reduce their potential liability; (5) Amtrak plans to implement other cost-saving initiatives such as reducing train and engine crews; (6) even with cost reductions, Amtrak expects to experience a shortfall of $1.3 billion through 2000; and (7) if this additional funding is not provided by the federal government, consideration should be given to reexamining Amtrak's mission and its current route system.
Download or read book Waiting on a Train written by James McCommons and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.
Download or read book Amtrak written by Barry Thomas Hill and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CURRENT AMTRAK ISSUES HEARING 108 20 COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 108TH CONGRESS 1ST written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and published by . This book was released on 2004* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intercity Passenger Rail Issues Associated with a Possible Amtrak Liquidation written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Root Causes of Amtrak Train Delays written by United States. Department of Transportation. Office of Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Governance Issues at Amtrak written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current governance issues at Amtrak : hearing before the Subcommittee on Railroads of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, November 15, 2005.
Download or read book Amtrak written by Samuel P. Goodwin and published by Nova Biomedical Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its creation in 1970, Amtrak has sought to relieve railroad companies of costly passenger operations while continuing US rail service. However, Amtrak has come under fire for its own inability to turn a profit, though passenger rail service is historically unprofitable. Congress has mandated that Amtrak show an ability to cover its own expenses, which the company has said it will do. As train travel becomes more important to the nation in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks, Amtrak's problems and viability are definite matters of national security. This book analyses the various issues surrounding Amtrak's past and future and includes a comprehensive bibliography.
Download or read book Intercity Passenger Rail written by Phyllis F. Scheinberg and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Root Causes of Amtrak Train Delays Federal Railroad Administration written by U. S. Department Of Transportation and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Root causes of Amtrak train delays [electronic resource] : Federal Railroad Administration.
Download or read book Current Amtrak Issues 108 20 April 30 2003 108 1 Hearing written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and published by . This book was released on 2004* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amtrak Deteriorated Financial and Operating Conditions Threaten Long term Viability written by Kenneth M. Mead and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
