Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Surface Transportation Board and Regulations Related to the Freight Railroad Industry
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Surface Transportation Board and Regulations Related to the Freight Railroad Industry
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780160909665
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780160909665
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Deregulation of Network Industries
Author: Sam Peltzman
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Contains four papers which discuss deregulation of specific service industries and question the progress of and obstacles to regulatory reform.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Contains four papers which discuss deregulation of specific service industries and question the progress of and obstacles to regulatory reform.
Modernizing Freight Rail Regulation
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780309369060
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"TRB Special Report 318: Modernizing Freight Rail Regulation examines the future role of the Surface Transportation Board (STB) in overseeing and regulating the service levels and rate offerings of railroads. This congressionally-requested report recommends approaches to resynchronize a regulatory program that has become outdated. The U.S. freight railroad industry has modernized and has become financially stable since the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, but the study committee finds that some of the industry's economic regulations have not kept pace and should be replaced with practices suited to today's freight rail system. The study committee finds that more appropriate, reliable, and usable procedures are needed for resolving rate disputes. The committee recommends that Congress should prepare to repeal the formula for eligibility for rate relief and should direct the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop a screening tool that compares disputed rates with rates charged in competitive rail markets. Current methods make artificial and arbitrary estimates of the cost of rail shipping. Adjudication can cost millions of dollars, and some cases have taken years to resolve, deterring shippers with smaller claims. Simplified methods that are economically valid and practical have yet to be introduced. The study committee recommends that STB replace hearings on the reasonableness of rates with arbitration hearings that compel faster, more economical resolutions. Merger reviews should be transferred to antitrust agencies, according to the committee, which also recommends that STB collect and analyze shipment-level data on service quality in overseeing the railroads' response to common carrier service obligations."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780309369060
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"TRB Special Report 318: Modernizing Freight Rail Regulation examines the future role of the Surface Transportation Board (STB) in overseeing and regulating the service levels and rate offerings of railroads. This congressionally-requested report recommends approaches to resynchronize a regulatory program that has become outdated. The U.S. freight railroad industry has modernized and has become financially stable since the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, but the study committee finds that some of the industry's economic regulations have not kept pace and should be replaced with practices suited to today's freight rail system. The study committee finds that more appropriate, reliable, and usable procedures are needed for resolving rate disputes. The committee recommends that Congress should prepare to repeal the formula for eligibility for rate relief and should direct the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop a screening tool that compares disputed rates with rates charged in competitive rail markets. Current methods make artificial and arbitrary estimates of the cost of rail shipping. Adjudication can cost millions of dollars, and some cases have taken years to resolve, deterring shippers with smaller claims. Simplified methods that are economically valid and practical have yet to be introduced. The study committee recommends that STB replace hearings on the reasonableness of rates with arbitration hearings that compel faster, more economical resolutions. Merger reviews should be transferred to antitrust agencies, according to the committee, which also recommends that STB collect and analyze shipment-level data on service quality in overseeing the railroads' response to common carrier service obligations."
The Surface Transportation Board's New Merger Rules
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 : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Solutionary Rail
Author: Bill Moyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998096308
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Solutionary Rail vision draws unlikely allies together. It provides common cause to workers, farmers, tribes, urban and rural communities via the tracks and corridors that connect them. Part action plan and part manifesto, this book launches a new people-powered campaign to transform the way we use trains and the corridors they travel through.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998096308
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Solutionary Rail vision draws unlikely allies together. It provides common cause to workers, farmers, tribes, urban and rural communities via the tracks and corridors that connect them. Part action plan and part manifesto, this book launches a new people-powered campaign to transform the way we use trains and the corridors they travel through.
Inspector General Reform Act of 2008
Author: United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Surface Transportation Board Reports
Author: United States. Surface Transportation Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
Surface Transportation Board Bound Reports
Author: Government Publications Office
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160840951
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT- Significantly reduced price. Overstock List Price Significant decisions of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board are included in the bound volumes.Tables of cases reported, opinions of the Board, and an index diges, plus a listing of the members of the Board are included within these bound volumes. "
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160840951
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT- Significantly reduced price. Overstock List Price Significant decisions of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board are included in the bound volumes.Tables of cases reported, opinions of the Board, and an index diges, plus a listing of the members of the Board are included within these bound volumes. "
The Federal Role in National Rail Policy
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description