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Title:

THE OUTLOOK FOR COMMERCIAL FREIGHT

Accession Number:

00486290

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309047021

Abstract:

An essential step that must be taken in anticipating what freight transportation will be like in 2020 is to consider today's environment and how it developed. Whatever difficulties are associated with looking into the future, they will be all the more severe if the current situation is not accurately understood. Moreover, the powerful forces that have shaped and changed the current transport system are still at work and will remain at work into the future. The first section of this paper highlights the key recent trends and summarizes the resultant position of railroads and motor carriers in today's freight markets. In the second section, an assessment is made of where railroads and motor carriers might be in the future. It assumes that the seeds of the technologies and strategies that will be familiar in the year 2020 have already sprouted and are growing quietly.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Board Special Report 220, A Look Ahead: Year 2020, Proceedings of the Conference on Long-Range Trends and Requirements for the Nation's Highway and Public Transit Systems, June 22-24, 1988, Washington, D.C.

Monograph Title:

A LOOK AHEAD: YEAR 2020

Monograph Accession #:

00486281

Report/Paper Numbers:

HS-040 656

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Roberts, Paul O
Fauth, Gary R

Pagination:

pp 329-353

Publication Date:

1988

Serial:

Transportation Research Board Special Report

Issue Number: 220
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0360-859X

Conference:

Conference on Long-Range Trends and Requirements for the Nation's Highway and Public Transit Systems

Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
Date: 1988-6-22 to 1988-6-24

ISBN:

0-309-04702-1

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (18) ; References (2) ; Tables (1)

Identifier Terms:

Transportation 2020

Subject Areas:

Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Aug 31 1989 12:00AM

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