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Modal Traffic Impacts of Waterway User Charges : Volume 2. Distribution Systems Analysis.
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1977-08-01
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Edition:Final report: Jun 1976 - Mar 1977
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Abstract: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 inland 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 change 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 describes the detailed analyses performed to determine the potential impacts of inland waterway cost recovery on waterway traffic and markets. Each chapter describes the distribution system for a particular commodity/industry group and estimates the impact of cost recovery tolls on barge traffic by evaluating potential changes in transportation mode, routing, materials' source, and production technologies.
Volume I describes the methods used in the analyses, summarizes the findings of the distribution system studies, and explores issues related to the type of expenditure and payback level in navigation cost recovery. Volume III is a set of data appendices that summarize segment toll versus fuel tax impacts on barge rates by commodity and river.
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