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A Comprehensive Rail Rate Index for Grain

Sparger, Adam; Prater, Marvin E. - Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture - 2013

analyses, each of these indices falls short in capturing the three major components of total railroad grain rates: tariff rates …

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Study of Rural Transportation Issues

Casavant, Kenneth L.; Denicoff, Marina R.; Jessup, Eric; … - Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture - 2010

The PDF is very large (29MB). To download one chapter at a time, go to http://dx.doi.org/10.9752/TS041.04-2010.

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Railroad Blues: How to Get Canada's Rail Policy Back on Track

Dachis, Benjamin - C. D. Howe Institute - 2015

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ИНФРАСТРУКТУРНЫЙ ПОДХОД К ОСВОЕНИЮ МЕСТОРОЖДЕНИЙ ПРИГРАНИЧНЫХ ТЕРРИТОРИЙ ТУВЫ

Дабиев Д.Ф.; Лебедев В.И. - In: Проблемы современной экономики (2012) 3, pp. 347-351

В статье рассмотрены основные положения стратегических документов, касающихся социально-экономического развития Тувы. Показано, что главным условием развития...

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Estimating flow times for containerized imports from Asia to the United States through the Western rail network

Leachman, Robert C.; Jula, Payman - In: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and … 48 (2012) 1, pp. 296-309

Queuing models are introduced for estimating container dwell times at rail intermodal terminals and transit times through rail line-haul corridors. These models are statistically calibrated on industry data. The intent of these models is to estimate changes in container flow times stemming from...

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The impact of reliability on the productivity of railroad companies

Abate, Megersa; Lijesen, Mark; Pels, Eric; Roelevelt, … - In: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and … 51 (2013) C, pp. 41-49

This paper studies the relationship between reliability (proxied by punctuality) and productivity in passenger railroad …

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The Effects of the Interstate Commerce Act on Transport Costs: Evidence from Wheat Prices

Blonigen, Bruce; Cristea, Anca - In: Review of Industrial Organization 43 (2013) 1, pp. 41-62

There is significant debate over the effect of the Interstate Commerce Act (ICA) on the cost of rail transport to shippers. Taking price differences across locations as proxy for transport costs, we use data on wheat prices before and after the implementation of the ICA to see if the Act led to...

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Sending or Receiving Stations? The Dual Influence of Railroads in Early 20th-Century Great Plains Settlement

White, Katherine - In: Population Research and Policy Review 27 (2008) 1, pp. 89-115

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The train has left the station: Do markets value intra-city access to inter-city rail connections?

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper analyzes the impact of access to inter-city rail connections on property prices using hedonic, difference-in-difference and time-difference estimation strategies. We investigate the reorganization of the rail system in post-unification Berlin, Germany, which provides much variation in...

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Aproximación al sistema contable de los talleres ferroviarios de MZA durante el siglo XIX. (Approach to the accounting system of the railroad workshops of MZA in the 19th century)

Hernández, Villacorta; Ángel, Miguel; Martínez Vara, … - In: De Computis "Revista Española de Historia de la … (2009) 11, pp. 116-135

Zaragoza y Alicante (MZA); y el tema elegido es la contabilidad de los talleres de dicha empresa. (The railroad is one of the … importance in the economic development of countries. With regard to the study of railroad economic history stands out the scarce … the two largest railroad companies in Spain: the Compañía de los Ferrocarriles de Madrid a Zaragoza y Alicante (MZA), that …

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