New Departures: Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the Twenty-First Century - Hardcover

Perl, Anthony

 
9780813122113: New Departures: Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0813122112 ISBN 13: 9780813122113
Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

North America faces a transportation crisis. Gas-guzzling SUVs clog the highways and air travelers face delays, cancellations, and uncertainty in the wake of unprecedented terrorist attacks. New Departures closely examines the options for improving intercity passenger trains' capacity to move North Americans where they want to go. While Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada face intense pressure to transform themselves into successful commercial enterprises, Anthony Perl demonstrates how public policy changes lie behind the triumphs of European and Japanese high-speed rail passenger innovations. Perl goes beyond merely describing these achievements, translating their implications into a North American institutional and political context and diagnosing the obstacles that have made renewing passenger trains so much more difficult in North America than elsewhere. New Departures links the lessons behind rail passenger revitalization abroad with the opportunity to recast the policies that constrain Amtrak and VIA Rail from providing efficient and effective intercity transportation.

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Anthony Perl is associate professor of political science at the University of Calgary.

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Verlag
The University Press of Kentucky
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813122112
ISBN 13 
9780813122113
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
334
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