RAILROADS AND THE ECONOMY

This issue of "The Logistics and Transportation Review" is devoted to the subject of railroads and the economy and comprises the following articles: Railroads and the economy by Ruppenthal, KM; Implications of the local rail assistance section of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 by Baumel, P, Drinka, TP and Miller, JJ; Competitive forces affecting Canadian rail rates through shipper-carrier negotiations by Heaver, TD; The impact of waterway user charges on grain and fertilizer transportation in central Illinois by Bunker, AR; Replacement value costing concepts and methodology--freight car costing by Lake, RW and MacDonald, JA; A statistical analysis of the Canadian railway rate structure, Heaver, TD and Oum, TH; Input functions in rail transport--some conceptual issues by Studnicki-Gizbert, KW. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  University of British Columbia, Vancouver

  Faculty of Commerce
  Vancouver, British Columbia  Canada 
• Publication Date: 1976

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 291-401
• Serial:
  • LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue Number: 5

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Costs; Economic analysis; Economic factors; Economics; Fertilizers; Freight cars; Freight traffic; Freight transportation; Grain; Public transit; Railroads; Rates; Statistical analysis; Subsidies; Traffic managers; Transportation; User charges
• Identifier Terms: Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis; Freight rates; Grain trade; Shippers
• Geographic Terms: Canada; United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Freight car costs; Railway
• ITRD Terms: 8018: Canada; 255: Economics; 263: Economics of transport; 1112: Freight transport; 744: Public transport; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00156893
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 4 1977 12:00AM