The Transportation Research Forum, founded in 1958, is an independent, nonprofit organization of transportation professionals who conduct, use, and benefit from research. Its purpose is to provide an impartial meeting ground for carriers, shippers, government officials, consultants, university researchers, suppliers, and others seeking exchange of information and ideas related to both passenger...

The research was carried out with the aim of studying, analyzing and technical technological features ore railways industrial transport enterprises. As a result, classification operation pointы out, infrastructure, train organization, freight work, rolling stock were described, opportunities for improving efficiency transportation identified.

This paper examines the impact of railroads on American economic growth. Drawing on general equilibrium trade theory, changes in counties’ “market access” captures the aggregate impact of local changes in railroads. Using a new spatial network of freight transportation routes, we calculate county-to-county lowest transportation costs and counties’ implied market access. As railroads expanded fr...

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Understanding policy impacts on freight is essential for planners who have overlooked this transport group in the past and must evaluate new congestion alleviation policies with respect to regional economic and social goals. Since urban areas are limited in infrastructure expansion and travel demand continues to rise, congestion pricing is a potentially compelling policy alternative. This thesi...

Forwarding air freight cargo globally from the shipper’s door to the door of the consignee is a complex logistic process and involves freight handling by several collaborating logistics companies. The door to door process is currently standardized by the International Air Transport Association with the industry initiative Cargo 2000. Many individuals with their own perspectives along the logist...

In transportation sector implemented deregulation processes as well as increased free competition in the global scale have been key change drivers in recent decades. This research work analyzes in retrospective shareholder value creation in North American railway freight and peer group of four transportation companies from Europe and one from Asia. Research shows that North American, and partic...

As highlighted in the February 2010 Aberdeen study, Transportation Procurement and Payment: Gain Control over Spend, transportation contract management is growing in both importance and scale as more companies (about 60%) have expanded or have plans to expand the global transportation spend they have under contract. In response to this trend, there is an increased interest in outsourcing models...

The Transportation Research Forum, founded in 1958, is an independent, nonprofit organization of transportation professionals who conduct, use, and benefit from research. Its purpose is to provide an impartial meeting ground for carriers, shippers, government officials, consultants, university researchers, suppliers, and others seeking exchange of information and ideas related to both passenger...