Download or read book Effects of the Staggers Rail Act on Grain Marketing written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This assessmeht report identifies the major post-Staggers impediments to the grain marketing and transportation system and recommends actions to alleviate these problems. the Office of Transportation visited 48 grain shippers in the summer of 1983 and conducted nine regional workshops in 1983-84.

Download or read book Impact of Staggers Rail Act of 1980 on United States Agriculture written by Ken Casavant and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Impacts of Rail Deregulation on Marketing of Kansas Wheat written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Assessment of Impacts on Agriculture of the Staggers Rail Act and Motor Carrier Act of 1980 written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of the Staggers Rail Act on Grain Transportation in the Northern and Central Great Plains written by Gene C. Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 Upon the Northeast Feed and Fertilizer Receivers written by Stanley K. Seaver and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Assessment of Impacts on Agriculture of the Staggers Rail Act and Motor Carrier Act of 1980 written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effect of Railroad Deregulation on Export grain Transportation Rate Structures written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Staggers Rail Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Impacts of Rail Deregulation on Marketing of Kansas Wheat written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Impact of Rail Transportation Contracts on Grain Transportation written by Kenneth W. Dorsch and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Implications of a North American Grain Marketing System for Prairie Transportation Elevators written by Kimberly J. Vachal and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oversight of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 on Pacific Northwest Wheat Transportation written by Felix Cabeza and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the impact of the 1980 Staggers Rail Act (SRA) on Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana) wheat transportation. A minimum cost uncapacitated transshipment network flow model is employed to simulate the origination and destination pattern of grain flows before (1977) and after (1985) the SRA. The grain transportation flow for those two years is compared and analyzed as a basis for measuring the impact of rail deregulation. The Transportation Simplex Algorithm is used to find the optimum (minimal cost) wheat transportation flow for the two time periods. Four modes of transportation -truck, barge, rail, and ocean carriers -are used to link a sample of inland grain elevators (source), barge terminals (transshipment), PNW ports on the Lower Columbia River and Puget Sound (transshipment), and foreign countries (sink). The empirical results indicate that the SRA has had a significant impact on modal distribution, overall transportation costs, and rate competition. Under the assumption of perfect information and profit maximizing behavior, and considering both single car and multicar rates, two-thirds of the total PNW wheat traffic should have moved by rail in 1985. This represents a significant increase compared to 1977, when this percentage was estimated at only 46.43 percent. This increase in rail modal share has come at the expense of truck-barge shipments. The truck-barge share of wheat transportation declined from 47.53 percent in 1977 to 25.66 percent in 1985. Most of this increase in rail shipment is the result of lower shipping costs offered through multicar rates. If only single car rail rates are considered in 1985, the rail market share is only 25.66 percent; while truckbarge market share is 66.60 percent. The volume of wheat exported through the Lower Columbia River ports and Puget Sound appears not to have been affected by the SRA. Overall wheat transportation cost decreased significantly over this time interval. In nominal terms, it cost an average of 5.32 percent less in 1985 than in 1977 to transport a metric ton of PNW wheat to the port terminals on the west coast. When adjusted for inflation, average wheat transportation cost decreased around 44 percent. Sensitivity analysis showed that the wheat transportation market in the PNW has been very competitive since 1977 with some apparent changes in market behavior. First, railroads had a greater ability in 1985 than in 1977, to capture wheat traffic from truck-barge by lowering rates. When rail rates are reduced by one percent, rail traffic increases 7.93 percent in the 1985 model and only 2.40 percent in the 1977 model. Rail rate increases, on the other hand, lead to higher traffic losses in 1977 than in 1985. For an increase of one percent in rail rates, rail traffic decreased 10.21 percent in 1977, and only 4.76 percent in 1985. The conclusion of this study is that there has been a significant diversion of wheat traffic from truck-barge to rail, during the period of rail deregulation. Overall transportation costs have also decreased, and the railroads ability to capture wheat traffic by reducing rates has been enhanced. It is concluded that the impact of the SRA on PNW wheat transportation is due largely to the introduction of multicar rates by the railroads serving the region. The implications of these findings are that railroad deregulation has provided many of the benefits expected by this legislation. Shippers are favored by the SRA because they are paying lower transportation costs. Railroads have benefited, to the extent that their market share has increased. Barge companies, however, have been adversely influenced by the SRA because they have lost their modal share of wheat traffic to railroads. Shippers, while benefiting from lower rates, seems now more vulnerable to the potential for future rail rate increases.

Download or read book Changes in Rail Transportation Rates and Their Effects on Interregional Competition in Feed Grains in the Eastern United States written by Glenn Charles Schmeltz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Staggers Rail Act of 1980 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agriculture rural development and related agencies appropriations for 1987 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: