Transportation Rates and Economic Development in Northern Ontario / / N.C. Bonsor.

This book examines the influence of transport costs on regional economic development in northern Ontario. It begins with an overview of the Canadian freight rate structure, with emphasis on railway rates, and a brief look at the history of federal rate policy. A theoretical model of rate determinati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1977
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (100 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Freight rates in Canada: an overview
  • 3 The theoretical model
  • 4 An analysis of transportation freight rates
  • 5 Subsidies and regulation
  • 6 Transportation costs and Northern Ontario economic development
  • APPENDIX A. Description of data and sources
  • APPENDIX B. The impact of statutory grain rates on the rate structure
  • References