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Interprovincial rail/truck competition in the 1990s
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.
Interprovincial rail/truck competition in the 1990s
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.
Interprovincial rail/truck competition in the 1990s
Soliman, A. H. (Autor:in) / Gadi, A. M. (Autor:in) / Wyatt, D. A. (Autor:in)
Transportation Planning and Technology ; 16 ; 105-115
01.11.1991
11 pages
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