Considerations in transportation energy contingency planning : proceedings of the National Energy Users' Conference for Transportation /
A conference was held in San Antonio, Texas, April 13-16, 1980, to focus attention on energy resources used for domestic transportation and the formulation of public policy related to contingency planning in the transportation life of the nation. This volume contains the proceedings of the conferenc...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy of Sciences,
1980.
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| Series: | Special report (National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board) ;
191. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- conference aims and directions
- Energy world viewpoint
- Energy: An overview
- Energy-transportation overview
- Summary of findings and recommendations
- Supply scenarios
- Capacity of urban transit and paratransit systems to meet energy contingencies
- Intercity passenger transportation: Capacity and contingency planning for an energy crisis
- Capacity of and strategies for freight transportation during an energy crisis
- Consumer behavior in response to past energy shortages
- Governmental response and the regulatory and policy environment that affect the performance of the transportation sector
- Gasoline-rationing strategies
- Movement of people in urban areas during contingency conditions
- Urban passenger strategies
- Potential use of carpooling during periods of energy shortages
- Capacity of urban transit systems to respond to energy constraints
- Potential roles for auxiliary-paratransit services in an energy shortage
- Energy contingency planning for the U.S. school transportation industry, 1979-1980
- Can the intercity transportation system accommodate the demand during an energy shortage?
- Energy and the airline industry
- Energy needs of the commuter airline industry
- Effect of a sudden fuel shortage on freight transport in the United States: An overview
- Issues in developing contingency plans for intercity freight
- Urban goods movement: Management solutions to an energy problem
- Policy implications of urban traveler response to recent gasoline shortages
- Response of freight transportation to fuel supply shortages
- Consumer reactions to the 1979 gasoline shortage
- Predicting consumer response to gasoline shortage
- Short-run traveler responses to alternative gasoline-allocation plans: Some modeling results
- Missed opportunities: Institutional, social, and political barriers to governmental responses to energy crises
- Selected issues related to governmental responses to energy shortfalls in the transportation sector
- Government agencies and fuel shortages: Past actions, current problems, and future opportunities
- Background information: Gasoline-rationing plan
- Economic allocation of gasoline shortages
- Household characteristics and the determinants of travel behavior
- Driver-versus vehicle-based rationing and the potential for coupon sales between different income groups in Michigan
- Contingency transportation plans for urban areas and their potential impacts
- The 1979 energy crisis: Who conserved how much?
- Participants.