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Title:

IMPACTS OF INLAND WATERWAY USER CHARGES

Accession Number:

00193357

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/03611981

Abstract:

The potential impacts of imposing user charges on inland waterways are estimated by using models and data of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inland navigation systems analysis program. Fee schedules designed to recover 50 and 100 percent of Corps of Engineers operations, maintenance, and rehabilitation expenses plus Coast Guard costs of providing navigation aids are developed. Two types of fees are considered: a uniform, systemwide fuel tax and a set segment megagram-kilometer fees that provide for local recovery of local costs. The principal impacts examined are changes in waterway transportation costs and modal shares of interregional freight traffic. Impacts of user charges are found to vary considerably throughout the waterway network based on the type of fee, the level of cost recovery, existing (without user charges) towing industry costs, and the waterway network based on the type of fee, the level of cost recovery, existing (without user charges) towing industry costs, and the waterway traffic base. Segment fees generally produce greater impacts than a fuel tax. /Author/

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appeared in Transportation Research Record 669, Waterborne Commerce and Inland Port Development. Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Inland Waterborne Transportation. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

01411508

Authors:

Bronzini, Michael S
Hawnn, Arthur F
Sharp, Frank M

Pagination:

pp 35-42

Publication Date:

1978

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 669
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures (1) ; References (6) ; Tables (5)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Transportation costs

Old TRIS Terms:

Subject Areas:

Economics; Society; Terminals and Facilities; Transportation (General)

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Apr 25 1979 12:00AM

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