Author: Douglas V. LeisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business logistics
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
National Regulatory Reform and the Emergence of an Intermodal Expedited Channel of Distribution
Author: Douglas V. LeisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business logistics
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Regulatory Reform in Road Freight and Retail Distribution
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Checklist of State Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Nevada Review of Business & Economics
Author: Reforming Infrastructure
Author: Ioannis Nicolaos KessidesPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.
List of Official Nevada Publications
Author: Nevada State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Intermodal Cargo Transportation
Author: The Rail Freight Challenge for Emerging Economies
Author: Bernard ArituaPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464813817
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
This report captures ways in which policy makers and senior officials in railway organizations from emerging economies can accelerate modal shift to rail. Such officials, as well as the general public, aspire for more freight to be moved by rail. The environmental and societal benefits of such a shift are compelling. And yet investment in railways is often not followed by a corresponding increase in freight moved by rail. This report highlights the fact that, in a world of changing global supply chains and logistics, the approach to regaining modal share needs to be different. The expectation that lower cost and efficient rail service will automatically lead to modal shift from road to rail has not been a reality in most emerging economies. Modern railways focus on understanding the logistics of targeted freight and positioning rail transport services as part of an overall logistics system aimed at meeting the needs of customers.
Transportation Journal
Author: Intermodal Railroading
Author: Brian SolomonPublisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 9780760325285
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This richly illustrated history chronicles one of the most revolutionary developments in freight railroading during the twentieth century: intermodal shipping, or the use of containers to move cargo between trains, trucks, and oceangoing vessels. It was a development that transformed the movement of freight around the world, with an almost incalculable impact on American industry. Intermodal railroading in North America begins tentatively, with attempts at piggybacking in the 1930s, before moving on to more serious developments in the period from World War II through the 1960s, notably by Canadian Pacific and the New Haven and Southern Pacific railroads. After looking at early intermodal technology and traffic, particularly the formation of pioneering equipment manufacturer and provider TTX, author Brian Solomon turns to the contemporary period. His account of mighty changes in North American shipping ranges from the implications of deregulation and various railroad mergers, to the emergence of partnerships between railroads and trucking and shipping firms. In addition to railroads like Conrail, BNSF, and CSX, this comprehensive history features trucking, freight delivery, and forwarding firms such as J. B. Hunt, Sea-Land, Maersk, and K-Line. It also considers the importance of specialized modern rolling stock, motive power, loading equipment, and intermodal hubs including South Kearney, Seattle, Long Beach, Oakland, and Houston.