Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Trucking Languages : en Pages : 104
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Comparison of the historic and current productivity performance of the Canadian and United States for-hire trucking industries, and discussion of the implications for competition for transborder traffic. The report discuses the creation of a reasonably comparable set of data from disparate sources in Canada and the U.S., then develops time series of key productivity indicators for both countries from 1978-88, assessing differences in national and sectoral performance within each country. The evolution of key input prices is considered to trace the efficacy of both productivity changes and other factors on costs/rates. The performance of the national trucking industries of Canada and the U.S. are described and the implications of this for transborder competition are considered. The study estimates the magnitude of transborder trucking, in particular historic growth and recent (1988) traffic structure for Canadian-domiciled carriers, and considers the possible impact of truck weight and dimension regulations, economic regulation, cabotage rules, truck regulations such as safety, trucking regulations such as dangerous goods, other regulations such as labour, truck technology, and freight flows on future domestic and transborder productivity and competitiveness.
Author: Joseph Jones Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Canadian Institute for Guided Ground Transport ISBN: 9780889110854 Category : Trucking Languages : en Pages :
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 13
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Competition between the Canadian and American for-hire trucking industries has been one of the major transportation issues of the post-deregulation era. This paper presents some preliminary conclusions and outstanding research issues concerning the productivity performance of the Canadian and U.S. for-hire trucking industries in the period following deregulation in the United States and ending with the first year following the passage of the Motor Vehicle Transportation Act (1988). Among the issues encountered in the course of the research were differences between Canada and the United States in the reporting of broker activities, differences in carrier classification, and the lack of a single all-encompassing measure of trucking productivity which is adequate for all segments of the industry, in particular the limited value of weight-based productivity measures in a period of changing commodity densities. The study considered a number of factors which may affect the productivity of either the domestic and/or transborder trucking industries. These were truck weight and dimension regulations, economic regulation, cabotage rules, truck regulations (safety, emissions), trucking regulations (dangerous goods), other regulations (highway, labour), truck technology, and freight flows. In particular, we attempted to identify factors which might give an advantage to either Canada or the United States. While most of these factors clearly affect domestic productivity, our assessment is that in general the impact will be comparable on both sides of the border. One possibe exception is trucking weight and dimension regulations, where it is probable, depending on the decisions of American legislators, that the increases in limits will be greater in the U.S. However, the effects of the RTAC weights and dimensions regulations are still working their way through the Canadian for-hire fleet. In addition, the impact of liberalized American regulations on transborder competition are by no means evident. For the covering abstract of the Conference, see IRRD Abstract No. 807771.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Municipal government publications Languages : en Pages : 1292
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An indexing, abstracting and document delivery service that covers current Canadian report literature of reference value from government and institutional sources.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 754
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Contains refereed papers, printed in full, that are presented at the TRF Annual Forum. Summaries of other events, presentations, and discussions that occur at the Forum are found in: Transportation Research Forum. Proceedings of the Transportation Research Forum; called 1991- : Transportation Research Forum. Meeting. Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting (1991).
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 14
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For-hire trucking is of vital and increasing importance in providing freight transportation services to the Canadian economy. It is also undergoing a period of rapid change as a result of deregulation. This paper's aim is to provide a clear picture of how the industry is currently functioning. It is hoped that in so doing it will be creating a baseline for future comparisons. The study found that during the 1978-1988 period the firms in the for-hire intercity trucking industry's composite output grew at about 7 percent per year. Overall, intercity freight rose more than did the GDP in the decade. The firms operating ratio rose at the beginning of the 1980s, but then declined again, though not generally to the levels of the late 1970s. Capital services grew at close to the same rate as composite output, but economies were realized in the areas of labour, fuel, and material inputs other than fuel. Owner-operators played a large role in the industry and permitted firms to change output levels without changing their levels of capital and labour by a proportionate account. Total productivity grew at a rate of about 4 percent per year. The largest increase in productivity lay in the area of labour services. Improvements in fuel productivity were slower than might have been expected and this may be due to frequent carelessness in attempting to realize the possible gains from using fuel efficiently. During the decade there was a decrease in capital productivity. This may have been due to a substitution of capital for labour, but there is also evidence that points towards the decline being due to changes in the age mix of the equipment fleet. For the covering abstract of the Conference, see IRRD Abstract No. 807771.
Author: William J. Baumol Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195083903 Category : Comparative economics Languages : en Pages : 356
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This collection of original articles looks at the convergence hypothesis, which asserts that since the Second World War, industrial countries were growing increasingly homogeneous in terms of productivity, technology, and per capita incomes. The book examines patterns displayed by individual industries within countries as well as the aggregate economies, influences that underlie the process of convergence, and the role that convergence has played and promises to play in the future. Contributors include: Moses Abramovitz, Alice M. Amsden, Magnus Blomstrom, David Dollar, Takashi Hikino, Gregory Ingram, William Lazonick, Frank Lichtenberg, Robert E. Lipsey, Angus Maddison, Gavin Wright, and Mario Zejan.
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