VIABILITY MEASURES APPLIED TO IOWA SHORTLINE RAILROADS

The state of Iowa lies in the rail corridor from Chicago to the West. Its rail system totals 5,000 miles but also spans a range of railroad health from busy mainline and reborn shortline to bankruptcy and abandonment. This study demonstrated the use of financial data reported to a state transportation agency to calculate, for each of twelve shortline railroads, ratios that became the inputs to viability vs. bankruptcy models described in the literature. The calculated and graphed outputs provide indications of the economic viability of the railroads. The results will be useful to government, investors and shippers in identifying firms that require financial assistance and those that may become viable investments.

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• Authors:
  • Walter, C K
  • McNair, H J
• Publication Date: 1990

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 275-285
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Transportation Research Forum
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Forum
  • ISSN: 1046-1469
  • Serial URL: https://trforum.org/journal-of-the-trf/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Abandonment; Bankruptcy; Decision making; Economics; Financial analysis; Investments; Short line railroads
• Old TRIS Terms: Economic viability
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; Railroads; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00495731
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1990 12:00AM