Author: Clifford Winston
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815714385
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
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.
Surface Freight Transportation
Author: Phillip Herr
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437982352
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Road, rail, and waterway freight transportation is vital to the nation's economy. Gov't., tax, regulatory, and infrastructure investment policies can affect the costs that shippers pass on to their customers. If gov't. policy gives one mode a cost advantage over another, then shipping prices and customers' use of freight modes can be distorted, reducing the overall efficiency of the nation's economy. This report: (1) describes how gov't. policies can affect competition and efficiency within the surface freight transportation sector; (2) determines what is known about the extent to which all costs are borne by surface freight customers; and (3) discusses the use of the findings when making surface freight transportation policy. Illus. A print on demand report.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437982352
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Road, rail, and waterway freight transportation is vital to the nation's economy. Gov't., tax, regulatory, and infrastructure investment policies can affect the costs that shippers pass on to their customers. If gov't. policy gives one mode a cost advantage over another, then shipping prices and customers' use of freight modes can be distorted, reducing the overall efficiency of the nation's economy. This report: (1) describes how gov't. policies can affect competition and efficiency within the surface freight transportation sector; (2) determines what is known about the extent to which all costs are borne by surface freight customers; and (3) discusses the use of the findings when making surface freight transportation policy. Illus. A print on demand report.
Freight Transportation in America
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Freight Transportation Regulation, Surface Freight, and the Interstate Commerce Commission
Author: Thomas Gale Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Economic Effects of Surface Freight Deregulation
Author: Clifford Winston
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815714385
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815714385
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
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.
Economic Reguation of Surface Freight Transportation
Author: Maidel Cason
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Deregulation of Surface Freight Forwarders
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher:
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Category : Freight forwarders
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freight forwarders
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Keeping America Moving
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security
Publisher:
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Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Paying Our Way
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Study of Public Policy for Surface Freight Transportation
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309062176
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Provides a preliminary examination of whether shippers of domestic surface freight pay the full social costs of the services that they use. This study is intended not to provide definitive answers as to whether shippers pay their full social costs, but rather to determine the feasibility of making such estimates.
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309062176
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Provides a preliminary examination of whether shippers of domestic surface freight pay the full social costs of the services that they use. This study is intended not to provide definitive answers as to whether shippers pay their full social costs, but rather to determine the feasibility of making such estimates.
An Integrated Policy Model for the Surface Freight Transportation Industries
Author: Ann Fetter Friedlaender
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Rail Freight Transportation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description