TRANSPORT POLICY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

The authors describe the recent White Paper as a "pretentious failure" to secure allocational efficiency between road and rail. It recognizes the need for "unorthodox" rural transport and for better subsidy management, but the problems of railway finance and local public transport are fundamentally untouched.

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• Authors:
  • Beesley, M E
  • Gwilliam, K M
• Publication Date: 1977-9

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 209-223
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: University of Bath
  • ISSN: 0022-5258
  • Serial URL: http://www.jtep.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competition; Deficits; Freight transportation; Policy making; Rural areas; Socioeconomic factors; Subsidies; Transportation modes; Transportation policy
• Identifier Terms: British Rail
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom; United States
• Old TRIS Terms: National transportation policies
• Subject Areas: Economics; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Railroads; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00167956
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Union of Railways
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 13 1981 12:00AM