North American freight transportation
Subtitle: the road to security and prosperity
By: Mary R. Brooks.
Series: Transport economics, management and policy series
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781847207999
Subjects: Freight and freightage -- North America
Description: "Ensuring security in international transportation without compromising operational effectiveness is a delicate balancing act. There is concern that economic benefits from NAFTA and the Canada-US Trade Agreement may have been diminished by the current security focus of American officials. The author addresses these concerns, beginning with a history of NAFTA and subsequent continental economic integration. Succeeding chapters provide an economic and regulatory assessment of the North American transport network, and examine key issues for both cargo interests and surface transport suppliers. The issues of perimeter security and growing regionalization are also explored. The author closes with a discussion of North America's transportation future under the Security and Prosperity Partnership." "The unique insights of North American Freight Transportation will be of interest to policymakers, those in the transport sector, as well as researchers and practitioners in political science and trade economics."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.