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      <title>MEASURING THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF PRODUCING RURAL ROAD SERVICES</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/653033</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This paper reports research examining the ability of a sample of Midwest township officials to produce low-volume rural road services in an economically efficient manner. Farrell-type measures of input use and scale efficiency are described. Results suggest that over 50% of costs may be unnecessarily incurred because of input use inefficiency. Correlation between output measures and the efficiency measures suggests that larger jurisdictions are more efficient than smaller jurisdictions. In addition, 84.5% of the townships exhibit technology characterized by increasing returns to scale. These results suggest that jurisdictional consolidation of production-related responsibilities may yield substantial cost savings.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>RURAL ROAD ABANDONMENT: POLICY CRITERIA AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Deterioration and changing use patterns of the rural road system have coalesced into difficult policy decisions for local government officials. A possible option for consideration is abandonment of some low-volume roads. A model is developed, using utility maximization and Pareto-optimal criteria, that allows identification of policy criteria for abandonment. The criteria are empirically estimated and 4-12% of the roads were found to be good candidates for abandonment without a net social loss.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>GOVERNMENT RAIL CAR REGULATION AND THE PRICE OF CANOLA</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[EFFECT OF CANADIAN REGULATION ON CANOLA PRICES IN THE STREET AND FUTURES MARKET.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 1997 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>INDIVIDUAL TRAVEL COST METHOD: ESTIMATION AND BENEFIT ASSESSMENT WITH A DISCRETE AND POSSIBLY GROUPED DEPENDENT VARIABLE.</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 1996 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FREIGHT CHARGE VARIATIONS IN TRUCK TRANSPORT MARKETS : PRICE DISCRIMINATION OR COMPETITIVE PRICING?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[FLORIDA TRUCK TRANSPORT MARKET FOR FRESH PRODUCE]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 1990 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IMPACT OF RAILROAD CONTRACTS ON GRAIN BIDS TO FARMERS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[No abstract provided.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 1990 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>THE DETERMINANTS OF FULL-EMPTY TRUCK MOVEMENTS</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/246159</link>
      <description><![CDATA[DATA ON FLORIDA PRODUCE HAULERS' MOVEMENTS INTO THE STATE]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 1988 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FLORIDA MOTOR CARRIER DEREGULATION: PERSPECTIVES OF URBAN AND RURAL SHIPPER/RECEIVERS</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/210231</link>
      <description><![CDATA[It is commonly asserted that with release from economic regulations, motor carriers will eliminate or sharply reducew services to small and inconveniently located shipper/receivers.  In this study the experiences of shipper/receivers under Florida deregulation are examined.  Shipper/receiver experiences are compared according to firm size, community size, and proximity to major metropolitan areas or highways.  The results indicate that while firm size has little bearing on service, locational factors are important.  For all shipper/receiver subgroups, however, those indicating improvements greatly outnumber those reporting erosions in service.  (Author)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 1984 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>SOME ISSUES IN TRANSPORTATION POLICY: PROBLEMS IN PREFERENCE ARTICULATION</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/166254</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This paper addresses questions having implications for policy analysis that are concerned with political-economic problems of improving the performance of the U.S. transportation system.  Attention is focused on problems of instituting market and political mechanisms for articulating preferences for transportation.  The following issues are addressed: development of transportation meta plans (plan for making plans and policy decisions) at national, state, and local levels; pricing and regulations as related to user chrges, cross-subsidizing captive rail shippers, and rail car shortages; jurisdictional boundaries, specifically geographic and agency boundaries; adjustment to energy situation, i.e., market problem, energy efficient railroads, conservation practices, and regulation of oil use; settlement pattens regarding transportation and energy; wonership and property rights related to transportation, including pipelines; and observation of political practice with regard to settlement patterns, cross-subsidies, rationalization, ownership, substitute service, benefit-cost analysis, public hearings, and implementation.  The author's purpose was to pose these questions and not to answer them; because there is no unique optimum transportation system. It was concluded that neither the market nor the political process is very effective as mechnisms for preference articulation for such complex products as the national transportation system.  While good applied political-economic analysis will not produce a perfect system, it can make a useful contribution.  To be useful, economic analysis must be tuned into the reality of the political system.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 1981 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ISSUES IN FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION REGULATION</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper addresses the proposition of reducing or eliminating economic regulation of freight transportation. The impact of deregulation on pricing, quality of service, and control of carrier operations is discussed at length. For the past decade several economists and politicians have suggested that removing regulation motor carriers from economic controls by the Interstate Commerce Commission will encourage new entry into the industry, lower freight rates, and improve service to shippers.  The regulated motor carrier industry supports the present regulatory system but is recommending regulatory reforms that it believes will make the system more efficient.  The basic industry position is that the country needs a responsive motor-common-carrier freight system, and without regulation such a system is imposible.  Some spokesmen of exempt truckers favor further relaxation entry and price controls. The railroad industry generally favors elimination of much of the railroad regulation.  Rail and motor carrier users are found on all sides of the issues.  Small community leaders fear the effect of major changes in freight regulation on their towns.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 1981 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>U.S. AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND GASOHOL: A POLICY SIMULATION</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This research uses a stochastic simulation model to evaluate the implications of alternative gasohol programs for a large segment of the food and agricultural sector--corn and soybean producers, consumers, and taxpayers.  The impacts on corn and soybean prices, production, acreage planted, carryover stocks, exports, and commodity program expenditures are presented.  The research findings indicate that alcohol production levels below 2.0 billion gallons do not result in serious dislocations in  the agricultural sector.  As the level of alcohol production increases and more grain is required, corn prices rise significantly, stocks fall to extremely low levels, exports decline, and government expenditures increase greatly. (Authors)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 1981 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>THE ECONOMICS OF UPGRADING SEVENTY-ONE BRANCH RAIL LINES IN IOWA</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/52053</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Proposed abandonment of branch lines in rural areas has stimulated concern over the impact on shippers, receivers and rural communities.  This paper presents estimates of the benefits and the costs of upgrading 71 branch lines.  The benefit-cost analysis is used to compare the net benefits with net costs of upgrading the lines.  Separate models are utilized to estimate the benefits to grain shippers, fertilizer shippers, and the shippers and receivers of all other products, from the upgrading.  Benefit-cost ratios are presented for six alternative solutions.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 1977 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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