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Abstract |
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Section 1: Introduction |
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Section 2: Trucking Industry Background and Structure |
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Section 3: Estimating Multifactor Productivity in Truck Transportation,
1987-2003 |
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Section 4: Comparisons of Multifactor Productivity |
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Section 5: Factors Affecting Multifactor Productivity in Trucking |
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Section 6: Conclusions |
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Figure 1: MFP in Transportation Industries and U.S. Private Business Sector (1987=100) |
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Figure 2: Production Possibilities Frontier |
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Table 1: Growth of Output, Inputs, and Multifactor Productivity in Trucking |
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Table 2: Growth of Output, Inputs, and Multifactor Productivity in Trucking |
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Table 3: Multifactor Productivity in Trucking |
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Table 4: Multifactor Productivity in Trucking |
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Table 5: Comparison of Annual Growth Rates of Truck MFP |
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Table 6: Multifactor Productivity of Rail, Air, Trucking, and the U.S. Private Business Sector |
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Table 7: Increases in Capital and Labor in Truck Transportation |
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Table 8: Chain-Type Quantity Indexes for Net Capital Stock of Selected Private Nonresidential Fixed Assets |
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Table 9: Intermediate Inputs to Output in Truck Transportation |
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Table 10: Fuel Efficiency of Heavy Single-Unit Trucks, 1980–2002 |
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Table 11: Fuel Efficiency of Combination Trucks, 1980–2002 |
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Table 12: Average Length of Haul of Trucks, 1985–2001 |
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Table 13: Use of Containers in U.S. Railroads |
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Table 14: Factors Affecting Truck MFP in Three Time Periods |
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Appendixes |
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Appendix A: Basic Growth-Accounting Methodology |
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Appendix B: Methodology with the Tornqvist Index |
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Appendix C: Data on Gross Output and Intermediate Inputs for Truck Transportation, From the GDP By-Industry Accounts and the Input-Output Accounts |
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Appendix D: Cost Shares of the Factor Inputs in Trucking |
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Appendix E: BEA Labor Data for Truck Transportation - NAICS and SIC |
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Appendix F: Growth of Trucking MFP, Estimated by the Two Methods |
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Appendix G: Capital Input Index |
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Appendix H: Estimation of Land Lost |
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Appendix I: Cost Shares of the Factor Inputs in Trucking (Percentage) |
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Appendix J: U.S. Waterborne Foreign Trade - Containerized Cargo |
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Appendix K: Use of Containers in Truck Transportation |
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Appendix L: Shipments by Truckload and Less-Than-Truckload Firms |
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References |
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