A federal role in freight planning and finance /

This monograph describes a federal freight policy designed to address growing challenges faced by the U.S. freight network in an environment dominated by declining revenues and public resistance to increasing taxes. The strategy is based on the use of benefit-cost analysis to not only calculate the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Rosenbloom, Sandra (Author), Wachs, Martin (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2012.
Series:	Rand Corporation monograph series.
Subjects:	Freight and freightage > United States. Freight and freightage > United States > Forecasting. Freight and freightage > United States > Costs. Freight and freightage > Government policy > United States. Freight and freightage. Freight and freightage > Costs. Freight and freightage > Forecasting. Freight and freightage > Government policy. United States. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Preface
Figures and tables
Summary
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Background
What is the federal role in freight transportation?
Four major elements of a suggested federal freight transportation policy
Paying for it all
Summary and conclusions
Bibliography
Table of figures.