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Community Impacts Of Abandonment of Railroad Service Soft cover
Community Impacts Of Abandonment of Railroad Service soft cover
Community Impacts of Abandonment of Railroad Service
Public Interest Economics Center
Soft cover Stapled
219 pages
Copyright 1974 December
Contents
I. Objective of the Study'1
A. The Problem 1
B. Overview4
C.' Method and Approach
1. General6
2. Scope7
3. The Nature of Impacts8
4. Data18
5. Future Costs19
D. Some Limitations of the Study20
E. Results 24
1. Outputs of the Aggregate Model25
2. Results of the Aggregate Computations27
3. Significance of Results of the Field Survey41
4. Energy and, Environment45
-Appendix to Chapter I49
II. Analytic Framework.53
A. Overview53
B. Analysis of the Firm59
C. Parameter Estimates65
D. Intermediate Products69
E. Cost Measurement70
F. .The Computer Program71
III. Description of Data: Main Inputs From Government Sources78
A. County Data: County Business Patterns 197278
1. Industry GroUps78
2. Employment and Payroll79
3. Industry Classifications (1967 SIC Code)80
4. County Classifications80
B. Census of Industries: Basic State and National Data
by Industry81,
1. SIC 07 Agricultural Services and Hunting and Trapping82
2. SIC 10 to 14 Mineral Industries83
3. SIC 15, 16 and 17 Construction Industries84
4. SIC 20 to 39 Manufacturing Industries85
5. SIC 50 to 59 Wholesale and Retail Trades'86
C. Other Data .86
1. Agricultural Production86
2. Input-Output Data88
3. Freight Commodity Statistics88
4. Personal Income Data by Counties89
5. Duration of Unemployment89
6. Total County Employment90
D. Inconsistencies in Basic Data and Crosswalk Problems90
IV. Other Data Collection and Manipulation95
A. Data Acquisition95
1, Rail Input Coefficients95
2. Elasticity of Demand96
3. Elasticity of Substitution Between Capital
and Labor96
4. Elasticity of Supply of Labor97
5. Elasticity of Supply of Capital97
6. Freight Commodity Data97
B. The PCTC Tape97
C. Subroutines for Handling Missing Data and "Unreasonable"
Values98
1. General Procedures for Dealing with Missing Data98
2. Specific Problems100
3. Procedures for Dealing with Exogenous or Calculated
Values Which are Not Reasonable .101
4. Derivation of Particular Values102
a. Outbound rail ratio102
b. F(K) - Ratio of alternative mode costs to rail costs102
V. The Field Studies105
A. Introduction 105
B. The Questionnaire106
C. Data Collection in the Field Surveys108
D. Problems in Collecting Data109
E. The Local Model112
F. Recommendations118
VI. Abandonments and Energy121
A. Introduction121
B. Indirect Effects of Abandonment of Fuel Consumption122
1. Transporte.tion Equipment Industries122
2. The Economy at Large123
C. Direct Effects of Rail Abandonment on Fuel Consumption 124
D. Procedure for Estimating Fuel Consumption by Competing
Modes126
1. The Disaggregated Model126
2. National Aggregative Technique127
VII. Abandonments and Environmental Degradation130
VIII. Case Studies136
A. The Counties Reviewed136
B. Sussek County, Delaware137
1. General137
2. Contemplated Abandonments144
3. Local Survey147
C. Fayette County, Pennsylvania155
1. General155
2. Contemplated Abandonments157
3. Local Survey163
D. Cambria and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania167
1. General167
2. Contemplated Abandonments174
3. Local Survey175
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