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Crash Energy Management Technology Transfer Symposium

Includes agenda for the symposium as well as slides of the topics.

Transportation Finance: Meeting the Funding Challenge Today, Shaping Policies for Tomorrow

Technical Monograph: Estimating Maintenance Costs for Mixed High Speed Passenger and Freight Rail Corridors

Several states have indicated a desire to upgrade existing railroad corridors between well-populated cities for improved passenger rail service that is time competitive with air and/or auto on a door-to- door basis for trips in the approximate range of 100 to 500 miles. Once a corridor is upgraded...

Research Results Digest 78

This digest contains recommendations for strategies, tools, and techniques to better manage major transit capital projects over $100 million. Information is presented on various estimation, project-0managemetn, and cost-containment approaches that were applied successfully to 14 case studies. The...

Productivity and Prices in the U.S. Rail Industry: Experience from 1965 to 1995 and Prospects for the Future

This paper documents the major changes in rail freight service productivity and the overall changes in rail prices over the period 1965 to 1995. Over this period, productivity improvements produced annual savings approaching $25 billion by 1995, with most of the savings achieved after 1983. Despite...

Journal of the Transportation Research Forum

A collection of articles covering various aspects of transportation research. Articles included: Wireless Communications and Freeway Incident Reporting, Productivity and Prices in the U.S. Rail Industry: Experience From 1965 to 1996 and Prospects for the Future, Railroad Monopoly in Grain...

International Perspectives on Road Pricing

Fifteen countries were represented at the November 2003 International Symposium on Road Pricing held in Key Biscayne, Florida. Participants discussed the rationale and motivations for implementing pricing strategies, the use of pricing revenues, and project outcomes. Drawing on resource papers,...

Environmental Externalities and Social Costs of Transportation Systems- Measurement, Mitigation and Costing: An Annotated Bibliography

There is increasing interest in how the full costs of environmental and social impacts can be weighed in the decision-making process. To allow planners, policy makers, legislators, and othe rinterested parties to make better informed decisions about modal choices, more and better information is...

Concessions in Transport

This paper considers world wide experience with a restricted range of the spectrum of options for private participation in the supply of transport infrastructure and services. One major concern in selecting an appropriate structure for private participation is shown to be the importance of securing...

Competitive Effects of Railroad Mergers

In the post-Staggers era, the U.S. railroad industry has experienced a significant number of mergers and a sharp reduction in the number of Class I rail carriers. This paper provides analysis of the competitive effects of these rail mergers, with a focus on Union Pacific -Southern Pacific,...

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