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Regulation of Motor Freight Transportation: A Quantitative Evaluation of Policy

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This study develops a way of using data to measure certain economic effects of transport regulation, particularly the rate effects associated with regulation of the motor carrier industry. The comprehensiveness of regulation in the United States has made cross-section studies of the effects of regulation virtually impossible. However, province-to province differences in regulation in Canada produce statistical information for the for-hire motor truck industry making it possible to estimate the rate levels associated with particular degrees of regulation there. A series of regression equations indicate that trucking charges in Canada have been higher under regulation than in its absence. Extension of the analysis to the for-hire motor trucking industry in the United States, using the more limited data available there, suggests that the same conditions may account for increased motor freight charges of $300 million per annum.

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  • James Sloss, 1970. "Regulation of Motor Freight Transportation: A Quantitative Evaluation of Policy," Bell Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 1(2), pages 327-366, Autumn.
    • Handle: RePEc:rje:bellje:v:1:y:1970:i:autumn:p:327-366
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    1. Michel Boucher, 1986. "L'inspiration americaine de la dereglementation en transport routier. (With English summary.)," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 12(1), pages 189-201, March.
    2. Chow, Garland, 1980. "The Impact of State Regulations on Motor Carrier Performance: Some Implications for Canadian Transport Policy Development," Transportation Research Forum Proceedings 1980s 318903, Transportation Research Forum.
    3. Laing, Andrew R. & Nolan, James F., 2009. "Price Dynamics and Market Structure in Transportation: For-Hire Grain Trucking Along the Alberta- Saskatchewan Border," 50th Annual Transportation Research Forum, Portland, Oregon, March 16-18, 2009 207599, Transportation Research Forum.
    4. Clarence G. Woudsma & Pavlos S. Kanaroglou, 1996. "The Impacts of Trucking Deregulation in Ontario: A Market-Specific Analysis," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 22(4), pages 356-377, December.
    5. Manouchehr Mokhtari & Doha Abdelhamid, 2008. "Neocapture: regulatory competition in an open market world," International Economic Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(1), pages 1-24.
    6. Gagné, Robert, 1988. "Réglementation et technologie dans l’industrie du transport par camion : une présentation de la méthodologie," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 64(2), pages 287-310, juin.
    7. Laing, Andrew & Nolan, James, 2013. "Measuring Spatial and Temporal Market Structure in a Transportation Sector: For-hire Grain Trucking on the Alberta-Saskatchewan Border in Canada," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Transportation Research Forum, vol. 52(3).

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