IMPACTS OF INLAND WATERWAY USER CHARGES
The potential impacts of imposing user charges on inland waterways are estimated by using models and data of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inland navigation systems analysis program. Fee schedules designed to recover 50 and 100 percent of Corps of Engineers operations, maintenance, and rehabilitation expenses plus Coast Guard costs of providing navigation aids are developed. Two types of fees are considered: a uniform, systemwide fuel tax and a set segment megagram-kilometer fees that provide for local recovery of local costs. The principal impacts examined are changes in waterway transportation costs and modal shares of interregional freight traffic. Impacts of user charges are found to vary considerably throughout the waterway network based on the type of fee, the level of cost recovery, existing (without user charges) towing industry costs, and the waterway network based on the type of fee, the level of cost recovery, existing (without user charges) towing industry costs, and the waterway traffic base. Segment fees generally produce greater impacts than a fuel tax. /Author/
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- This paper appeared in Transportation Research Record 669, Waterborne Commerce and Inland Port Development. Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Inland Waterborne Transportation. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
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Authors:
- Bronzini, Michael S
- Hawnn, Arthur F
- Sharp, Frank M
- Publication Date: 1978
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- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 35-42
- Monograph Title: Waterborne commerce and inland port development
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 669
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Costs; Economic analysis; Economics; Freight transportation; Fuel taxes; Inland waterways; Operating costs; Rail marine interface; Rivers; Ship pilotage; Tolls; Towing vehicles; Transportation; User charges; Water traffic; Waterways
- Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation costs
- Old TRIS Terms: Inland waterways economics; Inland waterways navigation; River traffic; Toll operations; Towing costs
- Subject Areas: Economics; Society; Terminals and Facilities; Transportation (General);
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- Accession Number: 00193357
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Apr 25 1979 12:00AM