TRANSPORTATION SUBSIDIES--NATURE AND EXTENT

This is a comprehensive treatment on North American experience with subsidies and indicates how well-intentioned programs have sometimes failed to achieve their stated purposes. Information is given on government expenditures in the U.S. and Canada for rivers and harbors, inland waterways, airways and airports, freeways and highways, navigation facilites, direct grants and subsidies. The chapters: Subsidy Mechanisms, the U.S. Experience; Transport Subsidies in Canada; subsidy and Counter Subsidy; Grain Movement Subsidies and Economic Distortions; Indirect Subsidies in Canadian Aviation; The Effect of Transportation Subsidies in Developing Countries; Subsidies and Local Service Airlines--the U.S. Experience; Feed Grain Subsidies.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of British Columbia, Vancouver

  1924 West Mall
  Vancouver, British Columbia  Canada  V6T 1W5
• Publication Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; Economics; Freight traffic; Grain; Highways; Inland waterways; Operating subsidies; Policy; Subsidies; Water transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Grain trade
• Old TRIS Terms: Government policies; Inland waterways economics
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics; Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Policy; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00142949
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 15 1976 12:00AM