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Several state rail plans have been developed under the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 and the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976. These plans typically use an index method to rank those lines that are eligible for continuation subsidies. The usefulness and applicability of the index procedure, however, are characterized by several problems. The purpose of this paper is to review these problems and to present an alternative method of ranking branch rail lines. This method is the benefit-cost ratio approach, which was used to develop the Iowa Department of Transportation rail plan. The ratio provides estimates, first, of the dollar value of each rail line to shippers, receivers, and the community and, second, of the annualized present dollar value of the cost of operating, maintaining, and upgrading the rail line.

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Transportation Research Record

57th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

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Abandonment; Accounting; Branch lines; Deficits; Economic analysis; Railroad transportation; Socioeconomic factors; State government; States; Subsidies; Transportation planning

Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976

Iowa

Iowa

Economics; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Society

TRIS, TRB

Aug 28 1979 12:00AM

• CLASS 2 RAILROAD OPERATING COSTS
• FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION AND REGULATION OF INTERMODAL COMPETITION
• INTERNAL CROSS-SUBSIDIZATIONS IN THE GENERAL FREIGHT SECTOR OF THE MOTOR CARRIER INDUSTRY
• OBSERVATIONS ON PROPOSALS TO RELAX MOTOR CARRIER REGULATORY ENTRY CONTROLS
• PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC AGENCIES IN SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
• REVIEW OF THE BRANCH-LINE POLICY ESTABLISHED BY THE RAILROAD REVITALIZATION AND REGULATORY REFORM ACT OF 1976
• SIMPLE ANALYTICS OF RAIL COSTS AND DISINVESTMENT CRITERIA
• STRATEGIC PLANNING STUDIES WITHIN BRITISH RAIL
• VEHICLE SIZE AND WEIGHT REGULATIONS, PERMIT OPERATION, AND FUTURE TRENDS