American railroad industry: twenty years after staggers

Transportation Quarterly

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 31-45

  Larson, Paul D ^a,b   Spraggins, H Barry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAILROAD INDUSTRY; STAGGERS RAIL ACT;

CARGO HANDLING; DEREGULATION; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PUBLIC POLICY;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0033733215     PISSN: 02789434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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