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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Checklist of State Publications
Author: Publisher:
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Nevada Review of Business & Economics
Author: List of Official Nevada Publications
Author: Nevada State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Intermodal Cargo Transportation
Author: Freight Facts and Figures
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Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Reforming Infrastructure
Author: Ioannis Nicolaos KessidesPublisher: World Bank Publications
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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.
Transportation Journal
Author: Deregulation of Network Industries
Author: Sam PeltzmanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780815713418
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Although the airline, railroad, telecommunications, and electric power industries are at very different stages in adjusting to regulatory reform, each industry faces the same critical public policy question: Are policymakers taking appropriate steps to stimulate competition or are they turning back the clock by slowing the process of deregulation? This volume addresses that issue and identifies the next steps that policymakers should take to enhance public welfare in the provision of these services. Each chapter identifies the central policy issues that have arisen in each industry as it undergoes transformation to a deregulated environment. The authors reveal the flaws in the residual regulations and make the case for faster and more comprehensive deregulation. A concluding chapter identifies how interest groups continue to exert influence on regulatory agencies and on Congress, potentially undermining deregulation. The papers included here were initially presented in December 1999 at a conference sponsored and organized by the AEI–Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies.
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.
Intermodal Marine Container Transportation
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for a Study of the Effects of Regulatory Reform on Technological Innovation in Marine Container ShippingPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309051545
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Examines where and how government action might assist in overcoming impediments and fostering efficiency in intermodal marine container transportation, through technological or institutional innovation. This report analyzes 10 key issues on which government in the US affects or can affect the intermodal marine container transportation industry.