TOLLS: EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY ISSUES FOR INLAND WATERWAYS

Transportation requires large amounts of capital in fixed facilities such as roads, tracks, or canals. Inland waterway transport is unique among modes, since it neither owns its right-of-way nor pays taxes to support its construction and maintenance. Although user charges are widely employed to recover the costs of publicly provided investments, proper theoretical foundation has not been made for their application to inland waterway transport. In this paper a foundation is provided which focuses on efficiency of allocation of resources, on equity of taxation, and on administration simplicity of each toll scheme.

• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Management Sciences

  146 Westminster Street
  Providence, RI  United States  02903
• Authors:
  • Case, L S
  • Lave, L B
• Publication Date: 1977-4

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 811-819
• Serial:
  • MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue Number: 8

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competition; Freight transportation; Inland waterways; Transportation modes; Transportation policy; User charges
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Old TRIS Terms: National transportation policies
• Subject Areas: Finance; Freight Transportation; Policy; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00163303
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 9 1977 12:00AM