Impediments to the American Railroads’ Achieving their Comparative Advantage for Long-distance Movement

George W. Hilton
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Chapter 16 in The Economics of Long-Distance Transportation, 1983, pp 221-231 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It is generally agreed that railroad transportation has a comparative advantage for long-distance inland movements of freight. It is also generally agreed that the American railroads are not realising this comparative advantage, though the reasons for this are in some dispute.

Keywords: Comparative Advantage; Geographical Pattern; Economic Organisation; Transportation Company; Freight Transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17013-5_16

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