HOW TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMUM RAILROAD ROUTE STRUCTURE?

This paper, says the author, presents no original research and no answers. Instead, it raises questions about "route structure," a term common in airline planning, but not in railroading. The questions fall into four major categories: Can national interest, distinct from regional or local interest, be defined? Is intramodal competition desirable or wasteful? What is the optimum extent of a system? What can be learned from experience in other nations and other modes?

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper is from Transportation in Focus, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Forum, San Francisco, California, 10-12 October 1974.
• Corporate Authors:

  Cross (Richard B) Company

  Oxford, Indiana,   United States  47971
• Authors:
  • Bixler, H E
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 23-24
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Cross (Richard B) Company
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue Number: 1

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competition; Industry structure; Policy; Reorganization; Routing
• Old TRIS Terms: Government policies; Route rationalization
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Policy; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00072718
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Forum
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proc Paper
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 9 1975 12:00AM