Short Line Impacts on Customer Service Levels for Grain Shippers

The overall purpose of this report is to objectively and quantitatively assess the potential impact that short line operations have upon service levels to grain shippers. Specifically, the first goal is to ascertain whether creating short line railroads has resulted in improvement or decline in the quality of service provided to country grain elevators. The second goal is to determine if elevators located on short lines have increased the volume of grain shipped by rail.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=97
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/59117
• Corporate Authors:

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  North Dakota State University
  1320 Albrecht Boulevard
  Fargo, ND  United States  581052
• Authors:
  • Dooley, Frank J
• Publication Date: 1989-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 32p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic analysis; Grain elevators; Level of service; Short line railroads
• Subject Areas: Economics; Freight Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01790159
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: UGPTI Staff Paper No. 94, SP-94
• Files: NTL, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 1 2021 3:05PM