KEEPING RAILROADS ON TRACK

This report represents a condensation of an earlier 329-page publication, Improving Railroad Productivity, by The Task Force on Railway Productivity, RRIS 054726. Described are actions that must be taken to rejuvenate the rail industry so that it may continue to serve the nation as an essential transporter of freight. Solutions discussed are containerization, abandonment of light-density lines, technological innovation, improved freight car utilization, changes in operating techniques, improved costing techniques, new marketing and planning methods, modernized regulation, and consolidations.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This report presents a condensation of an earlier, 329-page Publication, "Improving Railroad Productivity", by the Task Force on Railroad Productivity. Copies of the complete report can be obtained by writing to the Publications Department of the National Commission on Producitivity and Work Quality.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Commission on Productivity & Work Quality

  2000 M Street, NW, Suite 3002
  Washington, DC  United States  20508
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Pagination: 28 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Abandonment; Analysis; Branch lines; Costs; Marketing; Mergers; Productivity; Railcar utilization; Regulations; Technological forecasting; Work rules
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis
• Old TRIS Terms: Government regulations
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Law; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00098680
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 13 1975 12:00AM