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