New Departures: Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the Twenty-First Century eBook

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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 goes beyond merely describing these achievements, translating their implications into a North American institutional and political context and diagnosing the obstacles that have made renewing passenger trains so much more difficult in North America than elsewhere. New Departures links the lessons behind rail passenger revitalization abroad with the opportunity to recast the policies that constrain Amtrak and VIA Rail from providing efficient and effective intercity transportation.

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New Departures: Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the Twenty-First Century is written by Anthony Perl and published by The University Press of Kentucky. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for New Departures are 9780813156613, 0813156610 and the print ISBNs are 9780813122113, 0813122112. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780813170480, 9780813189307.