Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Future of Amtrak and Local Rail Freight Assistance
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Waiting on a Train
Author: James McCommons
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603582592
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603582592
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.
The Past and Future of U.S. Passenger Rail Service
Author: Elizabeth Pinkston
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Introduction: Amtrak's current situation -- A brief history of Amtrak -- Amtrak's role in intercity transportation -- The basic economics of passenger rail -- Policy options for the future of passenger rail -- Appendix. Amtrak's interconnections with freight and commuter railroads.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Introduction: Amtrak's current situation -- A brief history of Amtrak -- Amtrak's role in intercity transportation -- The basic economics of passenger rail -- Policy options for the future of passenger rail -- Appendix. Amtrak's interconnections with freight and commuter railroads.
Transportation Energy Data Book
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Code of Federal Regulations
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
Book Description
Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
Book Description
Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
Code of Federal Regulation
Author:
Publisher: ProStar Publications
ISBN: 9781577858614
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Publisher: ProStar Publications
ISBN: 9781577858614
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Beyond Gridlock
Author: Gerald M. Bastarache
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
This report summarizes the findings from an unprecedented series of 65 public forums held all across the United States between August 1987 and May 1988. The public forums were conceived as an element of the initial fact-finding stage of Transportation 2020, which itself represents the first ever attempt to develop a national consensus surface transportation policy.
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ISBN:
Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
This report summarizes the findings from an unprecedented series of 65 public forums held all across the United States between August 1987 and May 1988. The public forums were conceived as an element of the initial fact-finding stage of Transportation 2020, which itself represents the first ever attempt to develop a national consensus surface transportation policy.
Views and Estimates of Committees of the House (together with Supplemental and Minority Views) on the Congressional Budget for Fiscal Year ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget
Publisher:
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Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Congressional Hearings Calendar
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description