The report has considered waterway user charges, which have been proposed as a method of cost recovery of Federal expenditures. The report has examined possible modal carrier and traffic impacts due to user charges on the inland river system, and potential differential effects of various cost recovery options. It has found that waterway ton-miles may be reduced by as much as ten percent by the recovery of 100 percent of annual Federal operating, maintenance, and rehabilitation expenditures on rivers through a segment-specific toll. Adjustments to the changes in transportation prices by economic agents such as shippers, carriers, and producers should act to lower these traffic impacts over the long term. The report is divided into three volumes. This volume serves as an introduction to and summary of the Department of Transportation inland waterway user charge analysis. Alternative recovery options are discussed, sample tolls are calculated, and potential impacts of cost recovery on waterway traffic and carrier finances are summarized.
Modal Traffic Impacts of Waterway User Charges. Volume I: Recovery Options and Impacts Summary
1977
158 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Domestic Commerce, Marketing, & Economics , Marine & Waterway Transportation , Transportation , Waterway transportation , Cargo transportation , Taxes , Economic analysis , Market surveys , Industries , Mathematical models , Water traffic , Coal , Iron , Steel , Grains(Food) , Crude oil , Inland waterways , Rivers , Maintenance , Government policies , Cost engineering , Waterways(Transportation) , User charges , Tolls , Modal traffic , Commodity flow