Recently added articles from Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics, and Policy:
RLA BARGAINING DILEMMA: DO COURTS REALLY FOLLOW WILLIAMS?
Jan 01, 2007; ... The right of carriers1 under the Railway Labor Act (RLA) to unilaterally change the rates of pay, rules or working conditions before reaching an initial collective-bargaining agreement with a newly-certified union seemed well settled after the Supreme Court's decision in 1942 in Williams v ....
EARMARKS: THE WEAK LINK IN HIGHWAY FUNDING
Jan 01, 2007; ... "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."1 - P.J. O'Rourke The Highway Trust Fund, the Mass Transit Account and the problems accompanying them, are the result of a century of innovation and technology in transportation, coupled ...
BRINGING HARMONY TO NORTH AMERICA'S TRUCK SIZE AND WEIGHT REGULATIONS
Jan 01, 2007; ... The economies of the Canada, Mexico and the United States are closely tied through trade, especially since passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which lifted tariffs and trade barriers on goods and services. For example, nearly $1 billion dollars of merchandise moves between Canada ...
SPEED GOVERNORS AND THE COMING PUBLIC DEBATE
Jan 01, 2007; ... A debate is brewing over the proposed mandatory use of speed governors - devices that set the maximum speed of a vehicle's engine - on large trucks. On Valentine's Day 2006, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) endorsed a proposal to cap truck speeds at 68 mph by requiring engine ...
CHINA: A SLEEPING GIANT ARISES; IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. LOGISTICIANS
Jan 01, 2007; ... When China wakes, it will shake the world. - Napoleon Bonaparte1 During the summer of 1996, I was a tourist in China. I traveled to the Middle Kingdom2 to view its vast historical monuments, such as the Great Wall of China (circa 2 1 5 B.C.3) ,the Ming Dynasty Tombs (circa 1 ...
RAILROAD SAFETY: AN UNFINISHED INVESTMENT
Jan 01, 2007; ... Here lie the remains of Patrick Dunn, He raced for the crossing, but the engine won. - Anonymous After almost 180 years of railroading in America, and after what has turned out to be decades of decline and neglect, the issue of railroad safety is still with us, including the ...
RAILROAD SAFETY: AN UNFINISHED INVESTMENT COMMENTARY
Jan 01, 2007; ... John Ullmann, in the preceding article, provides thought-provoking presentations in his article about safety on U.S. railroads. Yes, the rail community (railroads, rail unions and government) shows denial at times - especially at the highest organizational level - but that is true for many ...
AFTER OTTER TAIL, MOST RATE REGULATION IS KAPUT
Jan 01, 2007; ... In Otter Tail Power Co. v. BNSF Railway Company,1 the Surface Transportation Board (STB) denied the complaint of Otter Tail, filed in January 2002, that the rate charged by BNSF to transport coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin to Otter Tail's Big Stone Plant in South Dakota exceeds a ...
ANTITRUST: IMPECCABLE CONCLUSION IN DAGHER
Jan 01, 2007; ... Antitrust, the quarterly publication of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, and always interesting, outdoes itself in its fall 2006 issue with well-written and useful articles on the Class Action Fairness Act (beware of federal statutes that mention "fairness," "patriotism," or those assigned ...
All About Railroading
Jan 01, 2007; ... All About Railroading By William C. Vantuono Simmons-Boardman Books Omaha, Neb. Paperback, 112 pp., color photos, $28.95 If the name William Vantuono is not familiar, then you haven't been reading the bible of railroading - Railway Age magazine, of which Vantuono is editor. And if you ...
The Renaissance of the Railroad: A Chronicle of the Transformation of the Century
Jan 01, 2007; ... The Renaissance of the Railroad: A Chronicle of the Transformation of the Century By Frank Richter AuthorHouse Bloomington, Indiana Paperback, 247pp., $10.75 For longer than most readers of this Journal have been alive, Frank Richter has been writing about railroads - as a founder of ...
LOS ANGELES MISSED THE BUS: SOLUTIONS TO ISSUES IN TRANSPORTATION EQUITY
Oct 01, 2006; ... I. INTRODUCTION In the field of city planning, the Smart Growth Movement has helped to re-envision American landscapes as places where infrastructure has the capacity to provide an adequate level of services to all districts and income groups.1 Historically, traditional city ...
ARE BENEFITS OF LIGHT RAIL WORTH SACRIFICES OF FOREGONE BUS SERVICE?
Oct 01, 2006; ... Anyone setting out to run a public transportation operation cannot help but be daunted by the huge loss of market share since 1945. As Figure !,next page, illustrates, near the end of World War Ð, public transit vehicles provided 50 percent of the person-miles of travel in urban regions. Most ...
MARITIME SHIPBREAKING: LAW AND POLICY Part III
Oct 01, 2006; ... This is the final article in a series of three articles on "Shipbreaking" by the same authors. The maritime industry has more than 46,000 vessels registered in 150 nations around the globe. These ships have a life span of some 25-30 years. As vessels are retired, they must be disposed of ...
SECOND CIRCUIT VACUUMS KIRBY INTO A VOID
Oct 01, 2006; ... A philosopher ...doesn 't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives. Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues [1943] Fewer than two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided James N ....
CHINA, INDIA AND THE U.S. RAIL INDUSTRY: OVERVIEW AND TRENDS
Oct 01, 2006; ... An examination of future trends in domestic freight transportation begins with the impact of a major sea change in the global economy: the rise of China and India as major economic powers. It's no longer just the sheer size of their populations - 1.3 billion in China and 1.0 billion in ...
Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads
Oct 01, 2006; ... Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads Edited by Gabriel Roth The Independent Institute Transaction Publishers New Brunswick (U.S.A.) and London (United Kingdom) Paperback, 564 pp., Roads and highways have rapidly ...
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS STRENGTHEN TRANSPORT INVESTMENT
Oct 01, 2006; ... America's economy is hurtling toward a dangerous pothole in the pathway to prosperity: the risk that our aging transportation infrastructure will undermine our economic competitiveness. Our nation's productivity relies more heavily than ever on an efficient transportation network. We ...
MISSING THE BUS: A COMMENTARY
Oct 01, 2006; ... Alicia Matricardi (Los Angeles Missed the Bus, pp. 410-449) has taken a look at U.S. transportation policy and found it to be ugly. Why, there's waste and inequalities in the distribution of tax dollars. The chief victims, as Matricardi sees it, are, as always, the transit dependent poor and ...
EVIDENCE OF SEASONALITY IN AIRLINE STOCK RETURNS
Oct 01, 2006; ... Most people would agree that investing in airlines for the long-term is a risky proposition, but we often hear investors speak of an airline seasonality trade where buying the stocks in the fall and selling in the spring generates excess returns. Naturally, we thought it useful to ...