Book Description
This book examines railroad regulation and public policy regarding the freight industry.
Author : Theodore E. Keeler
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780815748564
This book examines railroad regulation and public policy regarding the freight industry.
Author : Jeffrey Macher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0429633645
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.
Author : James C. Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN :
Author : Jeffrey T. Macher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0429632150
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.
Author : United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Clifford Winston
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815714386
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.
Author : Mark H. Rose
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0812221168
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.
Author : Wisconsin. Department of Transportation
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Freight and freightage
ISBN :
Author : George E. Tubman
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 1962
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Association of American Railroads
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Transportation
ISBN :