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Author :National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Transportation Publisher :National Academies ISBN 13 : Total Pages :66 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis A Review of the U.S. Freight System by : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Transportation
Download or read book A Review of the U.S. Freight System written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Transportation and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1980 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :80 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Keeping America Moving by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security
Download or read book Keeping America Moving written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Review of the U.S. Freight System by :
Download or read book A Review of the U.S. Freight System written by and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1980 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Panel on 21st-Century Freight Transportation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :98 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Perspectives from Users of the Nation's Freight System by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Panel on 21st-Century Freight Transportation
Download or read book Perspectives from Users of the Nation's Freight System written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Panel on 21st-Century Freight Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The State of U.S. Railroads by : Brian Weatherford
Download or read book The State of U.S. Railroads written by Brian Weatherford and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume of freight transported in the United States is expected to double in the next 30 years. An increased use of rail freight could allow the supply chain to accommodate these increased volumes while minimizing highway congestion and improving energy efficiency in the transportation sector. Shippers and policymakers are concerned that the existing infrastructure--much diminished after decades of track abandonment--lacks sufficient capacity to accommodate the increased demand for rail freight. This report draws from publicly available data on the U.S. railroad industry to provide observations about rail infrastructure capacity and performance in freight transportation. Railroads have improved their productivity in the past three decades, mitigating immediate concerns about capacity, but concerns about future capacity constraints appear to be justified. Insufficient data exist to determine whether rail performance is now stable, significantly declining, or improving. The railroad system is privately owned and operated, but there is a public role for easing rail capacity constraints because private decisions about transportation investment and freight shipping have public consequences for safety and the environment. A better understanding of the public and private cost trade-offs between shipping freight by truck and by rail is needed. Improvements to data quality and freight-modeling tools will improve the ability for policymakers to better target public investment in the rail freight transportation system.
Book Synopsis The Freight Story by : Harry Caldwell
Download or read book The Freight Story written by Harry Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although efforts to improve freight transportation efficiency and reliability have been successful, the U.S. transportation system is now facing challenges that, unless addressed, may jeopardize its reliability. Allowing transportation system reliability to erode would add additional pressure to U.S. companies operating in an increasingly competitive international market and place more burdens on communities seeking to sustain their economic base and quality of life. Improved logistics has thus far been able to address the corrosive effects of the loss of system reliability. Unfortunately, the ability of logistics to provide additional offsetting savings appears to be nearing its limit, as are the savings attributable to deregulation. Unless these challenges are addressed, more discretionary income will be devoted to moving materials and products, businesses will be constrained in their adoption of innovative strategies to maintain global competitiveness, quality of life-as measured by congestion-will suffer, and safety and security could be jeopardized.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :64 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Moving Passengers and Freight Into the Future by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Download or read book Moving Passengers and Freight Into the Future written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis U.S. Freight Rail Economics and Policy by : Jeffrey T. Macher
Download or read book U.S. Freight Rail Economics and Policy written by Jeffrey T. Macher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 256 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.
Book Synopsis Modernizing Freight Rail Regulation by :
Download or read book Modernizing Freight Rail Regulation written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "TRB Special Report 318: Modernizing Freight Rail Regulation examines the future role of the Surface Transportation Board (STB) in overseeing and regulating the service levels and rate offerings of railroads. This congressionally-requested report recommends approaches to resynchronize a regulatory program that has become outdated. The U.S. freight railroad industry has modernized and has become financially stable since the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, but the study committee finds that some of the industry's economic regulations have not kept pace and should be replaced with practices suited to today's freight rail system. The study committee finds that more appropriate, reliable, and usable procedures are needed for resolving rate disputes. The committee recommends that Congress should prepare to repeal the formula for eligibility for rate relief and should direct the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop a screening tool that compares disputed rates with rates charged in competitive rail markets. Current methods make artificial and arbitrary estimates of the cost of rail shipping. Adjudication can cost millions of dollars, and some cases have taken years to resolve, deterring shippers with smaller claims. Simplified methods that are economically valid and practical have yet to be introduced. The study committee recommends that STB replace hearings on the reasonableness of rates with arbitration hearings that compel faster, more economical resolutions. Merger reviews should be transferred to antitrust agencies, according to the committee, which also recommends that STB collect and analyze shipment-level data on service quality in overseeing the railroads' response to common carrier service obligations."
Book Synopsis America's Freight System in the 80's and 90's ... But how to Get There? by :
Download or read book America's Freight System in the 80's and 90's ... But how to Get There? written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Current Financial State of the Class I Freight Rail Industry by : John Rockefeller
Download or read book Current Financial State of the Class I Freight Rail Industry written by John Rockefeller and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Staggers Rail Act of 1980 allowed freight railroads (FR) to get rid of unprofitable lines and to consolidate their operations. It also allowed the FR to charge lower rates to their customers who operated in a competitive environment, and higher rates to customers who were captive to one FR carrier for transportation service. This review of the Class I FR's recent financial results shows that the Staggers Act's goal of restoring financial stability to the U.S. rail system has been achieved and has produced a rail renaissance. The four Class I railroads that today dominate the U.S. rail shipping market are achieving returns on revenue and operating ratios that rank them among the most profitable bus. in the U.S. Charts and tables. A print on demand report.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :484 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Intercity Domestic Transportation System for Passengers and Freight by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Download or read book Intercity Domestic Transportation System for Passengers and Freight written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis U.S. Cargo Transportation Systems Cost and Service Characteristics by : Transportation Systems Center
Download or read book U.S. Cargo Transportation Systems Cost and Service Characteristics written by Transportation Systems Center and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transportation Issues by : United States. General Accounting Office
Download or read book Transportation Issues written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Review of the Department of Transportation Research and Special Programs Administration's Hazardous Materials Research and Development Program by : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Transportation
Download or read book A Review of the Department of Transportation Research and Special Programs Administration's Hazardous Materials Research and Development Program written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Best Transportation System in the World by : Mark H. Rose
Download or read book The Best Transportation System in the World written by Mark H. Rose and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1920 to the mid-1990s, American transportation in the form of railroads, trucks, and airlines was simply a creature of politics and public policy. In brief, the markets for rail, truck, and airlines were not natural entities, but had been created through hard-fought political contests, full-time lobbying, and unceasing litigation. Between 1940 and the late 1970s, moreover, leaders of rail, truck, and airline firms lobbied and litigated to protect the workings of this regulatory regime." "In the mid-1950s, President Eisenhower asked Congress to award railroad executives authority to modify prices and service. Eisenhower was concerned about a railroad industry in decline. During the 1960s, President Johnson sought broad deregulation of rail, trucks, and airline firms. Johnson wanted another device to "fine tune" the economy. In the 1970s, Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter sought to deregulate transportation with a view toward reversing "stagflation." Between 1978 and 1980, Congress and President Carter approved deregulation of airlines, trucking, and railroads. Carter aide Mary Schuman played a crucial role in bringing about airline deregulation. For all the market talk that surrounded transportation politics before and after 1980, however, officials of the American state had been and remained the principal agents creating those markets."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis National Transportation Policy by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Download or read book National Transportation Policy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
