As Vehicle Weight and Dimension (VWD) regulations governing the Canadian trucking industry are relaxed, the need to understand the competitive relationship between trucking and the nation's railways becomes acute. The 1990s will see the highway freight industry adapt to larger allowable vehicle weights and dimensions, strengthening its competitive position in the freight service marketplace. This paper examines rail/truck competition and the effects of VWD reform for freight of the commodity classification “Fabricated materials, inedible.” A modal split model is developed and presented, and competition between trucks and trains in the deregulated environment is analysed.

    This research concludes that the competitive relationship between the two principal modes is the greatest over distances less than 1500 km, and that while 95% of the types of “Fabricated materials” freight carried by truck is also carried by rail, only 75% of the railway market in the same classification is subject to truck competition. The effects of trucking deregulation will prompt annual increases in rail user rates, through the 1990s, of about 1.74% less than they would otherwise have been.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Interprovincial rail/truck competition in the 1990s


    Contributors:
    Soliman, A. H. (author) / Gadi, A. M. (author) / Wyatt, D. A. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1991-11-01


    Size :

    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




    Tankers for interprovincial service

    Plummer, H.C. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1951


    Truck design for the 1990s

    Mabley, E.T. | Tema Archive | 1989



    Rail truck and rail truck connection system

    SUN YUKUN / LYU WENJUN / CHEN JIANFANG et al. | European Patent Office | 2022

    Free access

    Rail truck transporter

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1934