The Economics of Long-Distance Transportation : Proceedings of a Conference held by the International Economic Association in Moscow

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Planning and Mode Split of Freight Traffic in the USSR....Pages 3-11 Comparing the Efficiency of Western European Rail and Road Services....Pages 12-21 Changes in Freight Traffic among the Modes of Transport Past and Future....Pages 22-33 The Socialist Transport System — its Management and Planning....Pages 34-48 Modal Split, Efficiency and Public Policy....Pages 49-77 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 International Implications of Long-distance Transport of Fuels....Pages 81-96 The Today and Tomorrow of Arctic Transportation Routes....Pages 97-105 Trunk Line Transportation in Less Accessible Regions....Pages 106-111 Transportation System Planning for Alaska Development....Pages 112-133 Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas in the USSR....Pages 134-141 Efficient Long-distance Fuel Transportation....Pages 142-163 Front Matter....Pages 165-165 Mass Transport and Individual Transport: an Optimum Modal Split....Pages 167-178 The Optimum Ratio between Private and Public Passenger Transport Services in Conurbations: the Experience of the German Democratic Republic....Pages 179-186 Motorisation in Japan....Pages 187-196 Problems in Attaining an Optimum Ratio Between Long-distance Individual and Public Passenger Transport....Pages 197-217 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Impediments to the American Railroads’ Achieving their Comparative Advantage for Long-distance Movement....Pages 221-231 The Development and Main Problems of International Transport Systems....Pages 232-244 Rational Policies for Development of International Air Transportation....Pages 245-266 Time as a Factor in Increasing the Economic Efficiency of Ports and Sea—Land Transport....Pages 267-273 Port Congestion or Port Dysfunction?....Pages 274-285 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Inland Waterways and Long-distance Freight Traffic....Pages 286-302 Front Matter....Pages 303-303 Spatial Distribution of Productive Powers and Socialist Transport Policy....Pages 305-311 Organisation of Transport Enterprises....Pages 312-325 International Transportation Systems....Pages 326-347 The Importance of Organisational Forms of Integration in the Field of International Transport....Pages 348-352 Material Relations and Transport Policy in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic....Pages 353-360 Principal Problems of the Development of International Relations in the Transport Sector....Pages 361-373 Themes and Conclusions of the Conference....Pages 374-383 Back Matter....Pages 384-387