THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION POLICY STUDY COMMISSION AND ITS FINAL REPORT: A REVIEW
The author calls the recommendations of this comprehensive study often vague, sometimes in conflict, and frequently lacking in details needed for implementation. No sense is conveyed of the relative importance of proposals or of possible conflicts between them. Broad themes are reliance on market, utilization of private enterprise wherever possible, avoidance of government policy which is prejudicial to market performance, subjecting of proposed policy to economic analysis, and moving of public investment decisions as far as possible toward the local level. Much is made of the weakness of the railroad industry but prospects for mergers, deregulation, restructuring and competitive advantage do not appear to offer great promise for increasing railroad capabilities. There also seems to be little promise in substituting antitrust jurisdiction for existing regulation, for relying on market forces to control energy use, and for the fostering of intermodalism.
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Corporate Authors:
American Society of Traffic and Transportation
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Chicago, IL United States 60606 -
Authors:
- Williams Jr, E W
- Publication Date: 1980
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 5-19
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Serial:
- Transportation Journal
- Volume: 19
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: American Society of Transportation and Logistics
- ISSN: 0041-1612
- Serial URL: http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/transportationj/about.html
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Antitrust laws; Deregulation; Economic analysis; Government funding; Legislation; Policy; Transportation policy
- Geographic Terms: United States
- Old TRIS Terms: Government policies; National transportation policies
- Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Law; Policy; Railroads;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00314906
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 27 1980 12:00AM