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Author : Theodore E. Keeler
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0815748558
Author : Jeffrey Macher,John Mayo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429633645
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 : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN : UOM:39015035051294
Author : R. Kent Weaver
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Transportation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040144227
Author : United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015004514868
Author : Ryan Ellis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262357784
An examination of how post-9/11 security concerns have transformed the public view and governance of infrastructure. After September 11, 2001, infrastructures—the mundane systems that undergird much of modern life—were suddenly considered “soft targets” that required immediate security enhancements. Infrastructure protection quickly became the multibillion dollar core of a new and expansive homeland security mission. In this book, Ryan Ellis examines how the long shadow of post-9/11 security concerns have remade and reordered infrastructure, arguing that it has been a stunning transformation. Ellis describes the way workers, civic groups, city councils, bureaucrats, and others used the threat of terrorism as a political resource, taking the opportunity not only to address security vulnerabilities but also to reassert a degree of public control over infrastructure. Nearly two decades after September 11, the threat of terrorism remains etched into the inner workings of infrastructures through new laws, regulations, technologies, and practices. Ellis maps these changes through an examination of three U.S. infrastructures: the postal system, the freight rail network, and the electric power grid. He describes, for example, how debates about protecting the mail from anthrax and other biological hazards spiraled into larger arguments over worker rights, the power of large-volume mailers, and the fortunes of old media in a new media world; how environmental activists leveraged post-9/11 security fears over shipments of hazardous materials to take on the rail industry and the chemical lobby; and how otherwise marginal federal regulators parlayed new mandatory cybersecurity standards for the electric power industry into a robust system of accountability.
Author : George E. Tubman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$C227571
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legal and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Freight cars
ISBN : LOC:00220925985
Author : Brian Weatherford,Henry H. Willis,David Santana Ortiz
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780833045058
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.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1374 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Railroad law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006290865
Author : Clifford Winston,Thomas M. Corsi,Curtis M. Grimm
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815714385
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 : National Transportation Policy Study Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015002083437
Author : Wisconsin. Department of Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Freight and freightage
ISBN : WISC:89096568621
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Federal aid to transportation
ISBN : NWU:35556021311865
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045196750
