Historical Development of Transport Coordination & Integration in the United States

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U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission, Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics, 1950 - 217 páginas
 

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Página 123 - ... 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 of carrying out the above declaration of policy.
Página 99 - ... unfair or destructive competitive practices; improve the relations between, and coordinate transportation by and regulation of, motor carriers and other carriers; develop and preserve a highway transportation system properly adapted to the needs of the commerce of the United States and of the national defense...
Página 80 - In the division of such railways into such systems under such plan, competition shall be preserved as fully as possible and wherever practicable the existing routes and channels of trade and commerce shall be maintained.
Página 72 - 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...
Página 88 - ... and of all other restraints, limitations, and prohibitions of law, Federal, State, or municipal...
Página 41 - The proper function of a railroad corporation is to operate trains on its tracks, not to occupy the waters with ships in mock competition with itself, which in reality operate to the extinction of all genuine competition.
Página 14 - ... to use service by motor vehicle to public advantage in its operations and will not unduly restrain competition.
Página 16 - Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each; to promote safe, adequate, economical, and efficient service and foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers...
Página 44 - ... expeditious and economical transfer or interchange of passengers or property between carriers by water and carriers by rail...
Página 6 - America in congress assembled, that the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...

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