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Title: Assessing Adequacy of America’s Transportation Policies: Lessons from Debate about the Role of Railroads in Development of the American West
Accession Number: 01023089
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: This paper compares and contrasts two debates about the role of transportation in the American economy. The contemporary policy debate revolves around adequacy of current transportation infrastructure, whether infrastructure investment should be increased, and how and whether congestion should be addressed by public policy. An earlier debate in the economic history field revolved around whether the railroads were indispensable to America’s economic growth and how the building of a rail network affected the shape of that growth. This paper argues that in certain ways the contemporary policy exchange is covering much of the same ground covered by analysts studying the railroads and that the former can be usefully informed by the latter.
Monograph Title: Freight Analysis, Evaluation, and Modeling; Truck Transportation Monograph Accession #: 01037957
Language: English
Authors: Gordon, CameronPagination: pp 96-102
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0309099757
Media Type: Print
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; History; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Railroads; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Mar 3 2006 10:39AM
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