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Structure of Railroad Rates Transcontinental Stuart Daggett & John Carter HC
Structure of Railroad Rates Transcontinental by Stuart Daggett & John Carter
Hard Cover
Copyright 1947
165 pages Indexed
Contents
CHAPTERPAGE
I. Physical Characteristics of Western Territory1
II. Mechanics of Transcontinental Rate Making .21
III. Western Termini35
IV. Rate Groups on Eastbound Traffic .50
V. Rate Groups on Westbound Traffic .76
VI. Rate Profiles on Eastbound Traffic .?88
VII. Class Rate Levels 108
VIII. Commodity Rate Levels 117
IX. Summary and Conclusion ...140
Index 163
The purpose of the present monograph is to describe the railroad rate system which is applied to, and which in a measure controls, the export of goods from California to eastern states and the importation of eastern commodities in exchange. This is part of a larger study in which the effects of the railroad rate structure on the economy of California will be considered in some detail. The advantages of prompt publication of descriptive material, along with some analysis from the point of view of transport pricing, are believed, at the moment, to justify issue of the preliminary portion of the work. The authors have in mind the fact that transcontinental rate making is imperfectly understood except by a small number of technicians, and that this is unfortunate because large plans for reconversion of war industries and for the future development of the resources of the Pacific Coast depend for their realization upon railroad rates. There are also problems of rate technique which can be more intelligently discussed with more general knowledge of basic facts.
Most of the information used in this study has been collected directly from published railroad tariffs as of 1943 and 1944. This has, at least, been possible in working with local western and transcontinental rates. Requests have been made on the railroads for other
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