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Handbook for preservation of local railroad service. Final report

Patton, E.P.; Langley, C.J. Jr. - 2008

Throughout the United States, there is an accelerating abandonment of redundant and/or unprofitable light-density railroad lines. This abandonment can be economically harmful to both the shippers and the communities that were previously served. Although greater dependence upon truck...

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E-business and transportation: quantifying impacts: overall system & railway industry levels

Ferreira, L. - 2003

-business in railways. The main aims of the project are to: Map information flows and supply chain participant requirements …

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Regulation of an Open Access Essential Facility

Mitra, Manipushpak; Gautier, Axel - 2003

In this paper we consider the problem of regulating an open access essential facility. A vertically integrated firm owns an essential input and operates on the downstream market under the roof of a regulatory mechanism. There is a potential entrant in the downstream market. Both competitors use...

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Evolution of the China Railway Express in the context of policy support, trade trends, and infrastructure supply

Benard, Manuel; Yu, Runze; Pu, Wenjing - 2024

, railways, and logistics hubs, coupled with issues like insufficient standardization, technical constraints, and service …

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Drivers of railway container transports between China and Finland

Hilmola, Olli-Pekka; Li, Weidong - In: Journal of Shipping and Trade (JST) 8 (2023) 1, pp. 1-18

railways started to gain some ground. However, it took number of years that railway volumes grew as significant, and finally …

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Railway development in light of market needs: A SWOT analysis of the rail transport markets in the Visegrád four countries

Toth, Bálint L. - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 13 (2020) 3, pp. 32-44

Purpose: This paper intends to provide a comparative analysis of the Czech, the Hungarian, the Polish and the Slovak railway development strategies in light of the evolution of transport needs, travel habits, freight volumes, and regional business relations. By offering a general SWOT analysis...

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"For the Public Benefit" Railways in the British Cape Colony

Herranz-Loncán, Alfonso; Fourie, Johan - 2016

Built mostly to support the early mining industry, the Cape Colony's railways reduced the cost of transport to the … went to the state-owned company: the Cape parliament seems always to have seen the railways as a means to development. But … or the Transkei. While boosting the economy, the railways also had distributional effects, with consequences for racial …

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Serving God and Mammon: The 'Minerals-Railway Complex' and its Effects on Colonial Public Finances in the British Cape Colony, 1810-1910

Gwaindepi, Abel - 2019

The resource curse literature underscores the fact that extractive economies face challenges in diversifying their economies. What is less explored are the public finance challenges encountered in these economies when the extractive industries are completely privatized. Using a recently compiled...

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Analyzing the railway network of the belt and road initiative

Uygun, Yilmaz; Ahsan, Jahanzeb - In: Cogent Business & Management 8 (2021) 1, pp. 1-34

Rail freight has exhibited significant growth within the last decade between Asia and Europe, especially after the announcement of China's Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, which consists of seaborne and land routes. Within the latter one, this paper focuses on the railroad network that consists...

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Full steam ahead: Insider knowledge, stock trading and the nationalization of the railways in Prussia around 1879

Buchner, Michael; Jopp, Tobias A. - 2019

The costs and benefits of insider trading is a persistent topic in the economic literature and public discourse alike. Nowadays insider trading is principally illegal and morally banned implying that the costs are supposed to weigh heavier than the potential benefits. We study insider trading...

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