The report is concerned with the railroads primarily as transporters of freight rather than passengers. It suggests innovations in corporate structures and freight handling procedures to improve service and make the railroads run profitably without large infusions of new capital or public monies. The report discusses the origins of the railroad problem, alternative measures to improving railroad productivity, the financial circumstances of the railroad industry, the potentialities and inhibiting factors of containerization, approaches to relieve railroads of the burdens of light-density lines, the case of regulatory modernization, work-rule and seniority-district constraints, restructing the industry to give individual railroads greater control, and innovations to help reduce costs, improve service, and stimulate traffic growth.
Improving Railroad Productivity. Final Report of the Task Force on Railroad Productivity to the National Commission on Productivity and the Council of Economic Advisors
1973
375 pages
Report
No indication
English
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