UID:
almafu_9959240344602883
Format:
1 online resource (362 p.)
ISBN:
0-8131-5661-0
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0-8131-7048-6
Content:
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 go
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Public Policy: The Key to Rail Passenger Renewal; 1.1. Assessing the Passenger Trains Predicament: What Were They Thinking?; 1.2. A Primer on Public Policy, Policy Communities, and Policy Networks; 1.3. Fitting Railroads into Transportation Policy: A Starting Point for Rail Passenger Renewal; 1.4. The Japanese Shinkansen: Proactive Modernization; 2.5. The French Train a Grande Vitesse: Reactive Renewal of a Rail Enterprise
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1.6. Germany's Inter-City Express Train and Transrapid Maglev: A Tale of How Policy Can Influence the Success and Failure of Renewal Attempts2. Building on Achievement: A ""New Model Railroad"" for the Twenty First Century; 2.1. Understanding the ""New Model Railroad""; 2.2. French Rail Restructuring: Using New Technology to Set the Stage for Organizational Change; 2.3. German Rail Restructuring: Balancing Technological and Organizational Change; 2.4. United Kingdom: Transforming the Railroad's Organization Before Changing Its Technology; 2.5. Assessing the Dynamics of Creating NMRs
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2.6. Assessing the Strengths and Weaknesses of NMR Variants3. Sidetrack: How North American Rail Passenger Renewal Got Delayed by the Stalemate Over Public Enterprise Legitimacy; 3.1. The Regulatory Prologue; 3.2. Incrementalism Without a Came: the Transition to Public Enterprise; 4. False Starts with High Speed: State and Provincial Efforts to Leapfrog Amtrak's and VIA's Perennial Problems; 4.1. Origins of the Metroliner: America's Most Successful Rail Renewal Initiative
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4.2. From Demonstration to Distraction: How the Metroliners Results Got Crowded Out of the Rail Policy Agenda During the 1980s43. Moving Beyond the Metroliner: Extending High-Speed Trains to Boston and Launching Acela; 4.4. The First False Start: American High Speed Rail Corporation s Failure to Bring Bullet Trains to Southern California; 4.5. The AHSRCs Aftermath: A Policy Inheritance of High Hurdles in Project Planning; 4.6. Ohios Rail Passenger Plan: How Selling a ""Cadillac"" During Hard Times Closed the Door on State Financing for Rail Passenger Renewal
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4.7. The Failure of Private Sector Financing to Bring TGVs to Texas4.8. Florida's Public-Private Partnership in Rail Passenger Renewal; 4.9. Canadian Provincial and Corporate Rail Passenger Renewal Initiatives; 4.10. Lessons from North America s Subnational Efforts to Renew Passenger Trains; 5. Reinventing Amtrak: The Drive for Commercial Self-Sufficiency by 2003; 5.1. Amtrak's First Foray into Reinvention: The ''Claytor Commitment""; 5.2. Repositioning Amtrak to Attain the Claytor Commitment; 5.3. Legislating Amtrak's ""Reform""
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5.4. How Amtrak s CEO Became the First Casualty of the Struggle for Self-Sufficiency
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-59798-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8131-2211-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Electronic books.
