Description:
Multimodal systems offer efficiencies from complementary and competitive interactions. This study uses a least cost spatial equilibrium model to determine how alternative policies and firm decisions affect the performance of a multimodal grain transportation system. The analysis finds this system is extremely competitive and much of the competitive structure comes from intermodal movement via truck-barge. It also found that the operating structure of the shipping firm utilizing the system directly affects the performance.
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Date Published:
February, 1993
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Publication Number:
WA-RD 294.1
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Last Modified:
October 16, 2007
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Author:
Kenneth L. Casavant.
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Originator:
Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC)
- # of Pages: 138 p., 3,077 KB (PDF)
- Subject: Barges, Competition, Economic impacts, Grain, Intermodal transportation, Multimodal transportation, Performance, Policy, Railroads, Traffic managers, Trucking, Water transportation.
- Keywords: Multimodal, grain transportation, spatial equilibrium, Eastern Washington.
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This abstract was last modified April 29, 2008