Fast-Forward: Key Issues in Modernizing the U.S. Freight-Transportation System for Future Economic Growth

Hillestad, Richard; Roo, Ben D. Van; Yoho, Keenan D.

doi:10.7249/mg883

Cited by 6 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 10 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Summaries of VOT and VOR findings for rail and road, and overviews of the methods used, are provided by Feo-Valero [77], de Jong [76], and Zamparini [78][79][80]. A recurring narrative from this literature is that the reliability of journey times is very important to freight shippers [81] and is possibly more important than the journey time itself [82][83][84][85].…”

Section: Cross Border Road and Rail Freight-the Impact Of Delaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lowering Transport Costs and Prices by Competition: Regulatory and Institutional Reforms in Low Income Countries

et al. 2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

High passenger and freight transport costs are a barrier to economic growth and social mobility, particularly in Low Income Countries (LICs). This paper considers the current state of knowledge regarding the barriers to achieving lower generalised transport costs. It considers both the road and railway modes across passenger and freight transport. These issues include a reform on the regulations for driver hours (preventing the road infrastructure from overloading), structuring rail concessions, increasing competition, and tackling corruption. Such reforms aim to deliver efficiency gains and service quality improvements at lower costs for users. This paper identifies the knowledge gap in previous research and concludes by setting out a research agenda that builds the evidence base for how the best practices from around the world can best be applied to the specific circumstances in Low Income Countries, with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. road transport is dominant, but rail still has a non-trivial mode share in both the passenger and freight market. In LICs, experience varies. In Sub-Sharan Africa, the lack of railway infrastructure means that, for passenger flows outside of the long distance segment (which is small in any case), the road mode is dominant. As such, the rail transport that exists is biased towards freight. In South Asia, however, LICs can have substantive railway transport focused on passenger flows (for example in Bangladesh and Myanmar).More broadly, road and rail services are different because roads are open to private users whilst rails have much stronger access restrictions. Studies on the regulation, concession design, and institutional skills requirements for planning, designing, and monitoring transport services have been reviewed. Given the access restrictions in rail, these issues are more applicable to the rail sector. The situation for roads is different, where the state usually provides the infrastructure either directly or indirectly via letting tenders, but private users are also free to use the infrastructure. The issues with respect roads are more focused on regulations on driver hours, road safety, and preventing the over loading of vehicles and tackling corruption. Such reforms aim to deliver efficiency gains and service quality improvements at lower costs for users.Common to both road and rail are the long and costly clearance times at border crossings. Arvis [4] shows that the cost in the bottom three quintile LICs is three times higher, and its paperwork twice as high as that for the top two quintiles LICs. The literature also indicates that transit time and the reliability of transit impact freight choices and that cross-border delays significantly increase freight tariffs. Existing evidence on alternative technologies that can help improve cross border crossing is also considered. In many LICs, it is clear that the opportunities presented by strategic roads and rails are not being fully realised for a variety of reasons.Specific experiences in LICs...

show abstract

Section: Cross Border Road and Rail Freight-the Impact Of Delaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lowering Transport Costs and Prices by Competition: Regulatory and Institutional Reforms in Low Income Countries

et al. 2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…According to a study conducted by Hillestad et al (2009), railroads contribute to transporting approximately 40% of the freight traffic in the United States, by freight ton-miles. The American Association of Railroads (AAR) expects the freight rail volume to dramatically increase by 2035, resulting in 55% of the rail network being congested.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling strategies for effectively routing freight trains through complex networks

Murali

Ordóñez

Dessouky

2016

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…It is well-proven that reliability is the central factor shippers rely on when choosing the means of cargo transportation [2][3][4][5]. According to a survey of transport service users conducted by the RAND Corporation, reliability is "a key attribute for choosing the adequate method of conveyance, often even more important than speed" [6].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of research in cargo transportation reliability

Prokofieva

2020

E3S Web Conf.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The paper contains a review of studies in cargo and empty cars delivery reliability, describes methods of reliability calculation and monetary evaluation. The analysis showed that monetary evaluation when reliability is considered the main emphasis should be put on its for all participants of transportation process. Consignors/consignees are, as a rule, concerned about logistical control in terms of steady and regular carriages; carriers pay more attention to process operations and loading of the infrastructure elements; railway rolling stock operators give the first place to the turnaround of main operating assets.

show abstract

Fast-Forward: Key Issues in Modernizing the U.S. Freight-Transportation System for Future Economic Growth

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Lowering Transport Costs and Prices by Competition: Regulatory and Institutional Reforms in Low Income Countries

Lowering Transport Costs and Prices by Competition: Regulatory and Institutional Reforms in Low Income Countries

Modeling strategies for effectively routing freight trains through complex networks

Review of research in cargo transportation reliability

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About