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FORWARD SHIPPING OPTIONS FOR GRAIN BY RAIL: A STRATEGIC RISK ANALYSIS; SUMMARY

PRIEWE, Steven R.; WILSON, William W. - 1997

Grain hauling railroads began offering shipping alternatives in the late 1980s that have made transportation decisions …

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The Swedish Railway Deregulation Path

Alexandersson, Gunnar; Hultén, Staffan - In: Review of Network Economics 7 (2008) 1, pp. 18-36

This paper deals with railway deregulation and related reforms by means of a case study of Sweden, studying the 1988 split of railway infrastructure from operations and the subsequent steps of vertical and horizontal disintegration to a market characterized by decentralization and intra-modal...

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FORWARD SHIPPING OPTIONS FOR GRAIN BY RAIL: A STRATEGIC RISK ANALYSIS

Priewe, Steven R.; Wilson, William W. - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North … - 1997

Grain hauling railroads began offering shipping alternatives in the late 1980s that have made transportation decisions …

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Global railway passenger transports – efficiency analysis from period of 1980-2004

Hilmola, Olli-Pekka - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 2 (2009) 1, pp. 23-39

A number of different studies have been completed from the efficiency of developed countries and their passenger transportation operations. However, we have little understanding from the global performance of railway sector, and particularly from passenger segment. In this research work, we use...

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Against the stand-alone-cost test in U.S. freight rail regulation

Pittman, Russell - In: Journal of Regulatory Economics 38 (2010) 3, pp. 313-326

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Diferencias en el ingreso per cápita regional e infraestructura de transporte en México

Preciado, Torres; Hugo, Víctor; Polanco Gaytán, Mayrén; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

El objetivo de esta investigación consiste en ofrecer una primera aproximación acerca de la relación entre la disparidad económica regional y la inversión pública en infraestructura de transporte en México. En este sentido, el estudio comparte la perspectiva agregada que predomina en el...

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Risks of Catastrophic Derailments Involving the Release of Hazardous Materials

Glickman, Theodore S.; Rosenfield, Donald B. - In: Management Science 30 (1984) 4, pp. 503-511

Models are formulated and computed to assess the risks of hazardous materials releases in train derailments in terms of: the probability of any number of fatalities in an accident, the probability of any total number of fatalities from all the accidents in a year, and the frequency of accidents...

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Contracts Versus Price Discrimination: Evidence From the SONJ Case

Brown, John - In: Review of Industrial Organization 38 (2011) 3, pp. 235-243

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Leon Walras on Industrial Regulation: Railroads As Economic and Moral State Monopolies

Álvarez, Andrés - UN - RCE - CID - 2010

century. One of the main theoretical and applied debates which is still an issue today concerns natural monopolies. Railroads … provision of railroads and transportation.Walras´s point of view was developed with twofold argument of theoretical and a moral … economy. The case made in favor of the State intervention on Railroads industry considers altruistic motivations of human …

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The Impact of Access to Rail Transportation on Agricultural Improvement: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860

Atack, Jeremy; Margo, Robert Andrew - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 4 (2011) 2, pp. 5-18

During the 1850s, land in U.S. farms increased by more than a third—100 million acres—and almost 50 million acres, an area almost equal to that of the states of Indiana and Ohio combined, were converted from their raw, natural state into productive farmland. The time and expense of...

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