Williams Freight Transportation in the Soviet Union

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7647-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten

Reihe: National Bureau of Economic Research Publications

A comparison of major shifts in volume of freight traffic in the Soviet Union and in the United States.

Originally published in 1962.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Ernest William

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Transport- und Verkehrswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. ix
Tables, pg. xi
Charts, pg. xvi
Preface, pg. xvii
Foreword, pg. xix
CHAPTER 1. Composition and Growth of Soviet and United States Freight Transportation, pg. 1
CHAPTER 2. Soviet Railroad Traffic, pg. 33
CHAPTER 3. Factors Affecting Soviet Railroad Traffic, pg. 63
CHAPTER 4. An Analysis of Soviet Railway Operation, pg. 89
CHAPTER 5. Conclusions, pg. 133
APPENDIX A. Railroad Performance vs. Capital Investments During the Transportation Crisis in the USSR, 1931-35, pg. 141
APPENDIX B. Soviet Maritime Freight Traffic Statistics, pg. 157
APPENDIX C. Basic Series on Soviet Transportation, pg. 169
Bibliography, pg. 209
Index, pg. 215