Long-term trends in railroad service and capacity for U.S. agriculture

Details

• Creators:
  Prater, Marvin ; Klindworth, Keith
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Railroad transportation
  • Agriculture
  • Strategic planning
  • Long range planning
  • Agricultural shippers
  • Commodity shipment
  • Railroad capacity
  • Railroad services
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00927549
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Agricultural Marketing Service
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-RAIL TRANSPORTATION-RAIL TRANSPORTATION ; NTL-FREIGHT-Freight Economics and Finance ; NTL-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE-Economic Impacts ; AGR-FREIGHT-Grain & Other Farm Commodities ; AGR-FREIGHT-Railroads ; AGR-FREIGHT-Competition/Modal Share
• Abstract:
  In this paper, the long-term trends in railroad services and capacity for U.S. agriculture are identified and described, particularly in terms of what these trends portend for agricultural shippers absent any change in the economically deregulated environment within which the U.S. rail industry has operated during the past 20 years. Before the trends are discussed, however, introductory material on how the U.S. railroad system has evolved over that time will be presented. After the long-term trends are presented, the paper concludes with a brief discussion of the likely long-term implications to U.S. agriculture of these long-term trends in railroad services and capacity.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14118/dot_14118_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 143.56 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0509d35b32b80c3a044383342235d70214e8583ea60e10d1427bb54bf5dc5282