1. Chapter 9 – Transport Planning and Policies
APPLICATIONS

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3. Application 1 Rail Deregulation in the United States
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4. Major North American Rail Mergers, 1980-2001
Year
Merger (Resulting Firm)
1980
Burlington Northern and St. Louis - San Francisco (Burlington Northern)
Seaboard Coast Line, Chesapeake and Ohio, and Baltimore and Ohio (CSX)
1982
Louisville and Nashville and CSX (CSX)
Union Pacific, Western Pacific, Missouri Pacific (Union Pacific)
Southern Railway and Norfolk and Western (Norfolk Southern)
1985
Southern Pacific and St. Louis South-Western (Southern Pacific)
Union Pacific and Missouri-Kansas and Texas (Union Pacific)
1991
Southern Pacific and Denver & Rio Grande (Southern Pacific)
Canadian Pacific and Delaware and Hudson Railway (Canadian Pacific)
1995
Burlington Northern and Santa Fe (Burlington Northern Santa Fe)
Union Pacific and Chicago and North-Western (Union Pacific)
1996
Southern Pacific and Union Pacific (Union Pacific)
1998
Norfolk Southern, 58% of CONRAIL (Norfolk Southern)
CSX and 42% of CONRAIL (CSX Transportation)
Canadian National and Illinois Central Railroad (Canadian National)
2001
Canadian National and Wisconsin Central (Canadian National)
Source: adapted from C.H. Whitehurst and R.L. Clarke (2004) The Coming North American Rail Mergers. The Strom Thurmond Institute, Clemson University.
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5. Source: Nicolas Rapp, September 13, 2011 The battle of the rails
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6. Performance of Class I Railroads, 1964-2005
Source: Railroad Facts, AAR
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7. Productivity in Selected Transportation Industries: (Output per Employee, Index, 1987 = 100)
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Industry Productivity, available at as of March 2004.
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8. Value of a 2009 $100 Dollar,
Source: Robert C. Sahr, Political Science Department, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
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9. Application 4 Transportation and Pandemics
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10. Influenza-Like Illnesses per 100,000 Population, Selected Countries, 2003-2012
Source:
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11. Impacts of Transportation on the Velocity and Extent of a Pandemic
∆P(max)
Share of the Population Infected
∆T(mid)
T(C)
Time
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12. Diffusion of a Pandemic through a Global Transportation Network
A) Emergence
B) Translocation
C) Diffusion
D) Pandemic
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13. Application 5 Transportation and Disasters
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14. Global Plate Tectonics and Seismic Activity
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15. Probability of a Geomagnetic Storm with a Field Change Greater than 300 Nanoteslas per Minute (22 year cycle)
Source: adapted from T.S. Molinski, W.E. Feero and B.L. Damsky (2000) "Shielding grids from solar storms”, IEEE Spectrum.
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