A number of important innovations and events over the last 25 years have reshaped railroad marketing and have led to dramatically lower rates. Many of these innovations have been developed for and used extensively in agricultural markets. In this paper, we document these innovations and examine...

Transportation demanders are located at different points in geographical space and have differential access to modes. Central to the planning of transportation infrastructure is the aggregation of different shippers by mode over space. We estimate a modal choice model for rail and barge....

This study estimates a hedonic railroad cost function. It allows for differences in marginal costs across different outputs with different shipment characteristics. Cost and shipment data are included to examine the elasticity of costs with respect to two outputs - unit train output and way &...