Deregulating Freight Transportation

Author : Clifford Winston,Thomas M. Corsi,Curtis M. Grimm,Carol A. Evans
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815714385

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The Economic Effects of Surface Freight Deregulation by Clifford Winston,Thomas M. Corsi,Curtis M. Grimm,Carol A. Evans Pdf

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 : Paul Eric Teske,Samuel Best,Michael Mintrom
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0844738964

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Deregulating Freight Transportation by Paul Eric Teske,Samuel Best,Michael Mintrom Pdf

This book examines the effects of government intervention on the operations of the freight transportation industry.

Author : Daniel Madar
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780774842358

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Heavy Traffic by Daniel Madar Pdf

Canada and the United States exchange the world's highest level of bilateral trade, valued at $1.4 billion a day. Two-thirds of this trade travels on trucks. Heavy Traffic examines the way in which the regulatory reform of American and Canadian trucking, coupled with free trade, has internationalized this vital industry. Before deregulation, restrictive entry rules had fostered two separate national highway transportation markets, and most international traffic had to be exchanged at the border. When the United States deregulated first, the imbalance between its opened market and Canada's still-restricted one produced a surprisingly difficult bilateral dispute. American deregulation was motivated by domestic incentives, but the subsequent Canadian deregulation blended domestic incentives with transborder rate comparisons and concerns about trade competitiveness. Daniel Madar shows that deregulation created a de facto regime of free trade in trucking services. Removing regulatory barriers has enabled Canadian and American carriers to follow the expansion of transborder traffic that began with the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and continues with NAFTA. The services available with deregulated trucking have also supported sweeping changes in industrial logistics. As transborder traffic has surged, the two countries' carriers -- from billion-dollar corporations to family firms -- have exploited the latitude provided by deregulation. This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the policy processes and economic conditions that led to trucking deregulation. As a study in public policy formation and the international effects of reform, it will be of interest to students and scholars of political economy, international relations, and transportation.

Author : B Starr McMullen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-12
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0080545513

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Transportation After Deregulation by B Starr McMullen Pdf

Several of the papers in this volume are concerned with assessing both the timing and the impacts of deregulation and regulatory reform in the US transportation sector. Of increasing interest is the importance of productivity growth and the role played by new technologies in a more competitive market environment. Four of the papers in this volume deal directly with these issues in the context of motor carriers and railroads, two sectors which have been operating under substantially reduced regulatory constraints for the past twenty years in the US. Although the financial condition of US railroads has improved since 1980, there is still some concern regarding their long run viability as private enterprises. Accordingly, one of the papers considers the potential for further reductions in railroad costs through transcontinental mergers, a controversial issue due to the small number of railroads that remain in the industry.

Author : Clifford Winston,Thomas M. Corsi,Curtis M. Grimm,Carol A. Evans
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815714386

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The Economic Effects of Surface Freight Deregulation by Clifford Winston,Thomas M. Corsi,Curtis M. Grimm,Carol A. Evans Pdf

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 : John Heads,Canadian Transport Commission. Economic and Social Analysis Branch
Publisher : Economic and Social Analysis Branch, Canadian Transport Commission
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Carriers
ISBN : NWU:35556021185533

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Some Lessons from Transport Deregulation in Canada by John Heads,Canadian Transport Commission. Economic and Social Analysis Branch Pdf

Author : Harold C. Sorensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UCBK:C100784630

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Impacts of Truck and Railroad Deregulation on Transportation Operations and Economic Activity in the State of Washington by Harold C. Sorensen Pdf

Author : Michael H. Belzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195128869

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Sweatshops on Wheels by Michael H. Belzer Pdf

Long hours, low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today. Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation exposes the dark side of government deregulation in America's interstate trucking industry. In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today, America's long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at any time during the last four decades. Written by a former long-haul trucker who now teaches industrial relations at Wayne State University, Sweatshops on Wheels raises crucial questions about the legacy of trucking deregulation in America and casts provocative new light on the issue of government deregulation in general.

Author : Leon N. Moses,Ian Savage
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195057973

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Transportation Safety in an Age of Deregulation by Leon N. Moses,Ian Savage Pdf

The recent trend to deregulate industries has raised the question of whether deregulation means decreased safety. This book considers the question with regard to the airline and motor freight industries.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Trucking
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045212938

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Trucking Industry Deregulation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation Pdf

Author : Ann Fetter Friedlaender,Richard H. Spady
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Freight and freightage
ISBN : UCSD:31822001523356

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Freight Transport Regulation by Ann Fetter Friedlaender,Richard H. Spady Pdf

The authors of this study evaluate the consequences of deregulation in the rail and trucking industries and, in particular, quantify the efficiency and distributional effects of such a change.

Author : James T. Russell,Canadian Transport Commission. Traffic & Tariffs Branch,Canadian Transport Commission. Railway Transport Committee
Publisher : Hull, Quebec : Canadian Transport Commission, Traffic and Tariffs Branch
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Railroad law
ISBN : NWU:35556021332499

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Preliminary Report by James T. Russell,Canadian Transport Commission. Traffic & Tariffs Branch,Canadian Transport Commission. Railway Transport Committee Pdf

Views of Canadian railways, shippers, and provincial governments on the effect of Staggers on cross-border trade; U.S./Canadian rail links; U.S./Canadian networks resulting from mergers.

Author : Kenneth Button,David Pitfield
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349216161

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Transport Deregulation by Kenneth Button,David Pitfield Pdf

This book brings together an international collection of original papers looking at the impacts of the recent liberalization measures in the transport sector. It contains a number of area studies which focus on the deregulation of countries such as Switzerland and Australia as well as the broader European perspective. Additionally there are a number of modal studies which pay attention to the deregulation which has taken place regarding road, rail and air transport in selected countries. The papers are written by international authorities in their respective fields.

Author : J. McConville
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 185567386X

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Transport Regulation Matters by J. McConville Pdf

Transport has become a major concern on both social and economic grounds in the late-twentieth century. This concern arises from a perception of the industry's failure to respond to the rapid growth in demand and to the threat of congestion and environmental pollution. A solution has been sought in economic policies dominated by ideas of liberalization and deregulation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Railroad law
ISBN : NWU:35556029434610

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Inquiry Into Effects in Canada of U.S. Rail Deregulation: Appendices C and D by Anonim Pdf