National Transportation Policy: Preliminary Draft of a Report Prepared for the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate by the Special Study Group on Transportation Policies in the United States, Pursuant to S. Res. 29, 151, and 244 of the 86th Congress |
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... Funds for navigation ...... . ( c ) Funds for aviation__ . ( d ) Promotion of the merchant marine_ 4. The projected future , 1961-75 --- . 5. Problem areas-- 166 167 168 168 170 170 Table I. Summary of Federal program funds in direct ...
... Funds for navigation ...... . ( c ) Funds for aviation__ . ( d ) Promotion of the merchant marine_ 4. The projected future , 1961-75 --- . 5. Problem areas-- 166 167 168 168 170 170 Table I. Summary of Federal program funds in direct ...
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... funds . ( d ) Highway expenditures reflect public desire_ . 6. Metropolitan passenger transportation must be planned ... funds for appli- cation in metropolitan areas .. 613 ( 1 ) Review of purposes and dispensation of planning funds___ ...
... funds . ( d ) Highway expenditures reflect public desire_ . 6. Metropolitan passenger transportation must be planned ... funds for appli- cation in metropolitan areas .. 613 ( 1 ) Review of purposes and dispensation of planning funds___ ...
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... funds . We do not believe the public will accept any hamstringing of national economic growth by deteriorating common carrier transportation . If it will not , then Government must supply the cash and may reasonably be expected to ...
... funds . We do not believe the public will accept any hamstringing of national economic growth by deteriorating common carrier transportation . If it will not , then Government must supply the cash and may reasonably be expected to ...
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... fund should bear of various programs as a result of Gov- ernment use of facilities . It concludes that the concept of user charges should be accepted now for gradual application to air and waterway transportation over a period of years ...
... fund should bear of various programs as a result of Gov- ernment use of facilities . It concludes that the concept of user charges should be accepted now for gradual application to air and waterway transportation over a period of years ...
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... funds for rail operation , supplied through direct payments or tax relief , from being absorbed by Federal income taxation . METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSPORTATION The problems of the commuter railroads are not an isolated disease , they are ...
... funds for rail operation , supplied through direct payments or tax relief , from being absorbed by Federal income taxation . METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSPORTATION The problems of the commuter railroads are not an isolated disease , they are ...
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Page 386 - States and the duly authorized officials thereof; and to encourage fair wages and equitable working conditions — all to the end of developing, coordinating, and preserving a national transportation system by water, highway, and rail, as well as other means, adequate to meet the needs of the commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense. All of the provisions of this act shall be administered and enforced with a view to carrying out the above declaration of policy.
Page 144 - Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers, or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page 27 - I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Page 120 - When used in this section the term "rates" means rates, fares, and charges, and all classifications, regulations, and practices relating thereto. (2) In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed...
Page 195 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 389 - Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service at the lowest cost consistent with the furnishing of such service, and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable the carriers, under honest, economical, and efficient management to provide such service.
Page 505 - Gray Area of Transportation Operations" by the Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics of the Interstate Commerce Commission dated June 1960, is the most comprehensive survey of its kind available.
Page 389 - ... the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient transportation service by such carriers at the lowest cost consistent with the furnishing of such service; and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable such carriers, under honest, economical, and efficient management, to provide such service.
Page 490 - That nothing in this act shall prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of property free or at reduced rates for the United States, State, or municipal governments...
Page 236 - The Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems.