The Staggers Rail Act: Impact on Rate Structures and Services

This is the third of eight papers in the Transportation Deregulation and Agriculture series, John O. Gerald and Ken L. Casavant, general editors, published by the Western Rural Development Center. The series deals with the nature and potential impacts on agriculture of the Motor Carrier and Staggers Rail Acts of 1980. These acts, in part, removed federal regulation of the trucking and rail industries. This paper is concerned with the impact on rate structures and services of the Staggers Rail Act.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=50
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/60694
• Corporate Authors:

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  North Dakota State University
  1320 Albrecht Boulevard
  Fargo, ND  United States  581052
• Authors:
  • Griffin, Gene C
• Publication Date: 1983-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 14p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Agricultural products; Freight service; Impact studies; Rates; Regulations
• Identifier Terms: Staggers Rail Act of 1980
• Subject Areas: Economics; Freight Transportation; Law; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01789876
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: UGPTI Staff Paper No. 47, SP-47
• Files: NTL, TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 2021 4:06PM