Understanding Federal Transportation Regulatory Change: A Study of One Set of Energy-Transport Policy-Making Mechanisms

摘要

This paper presents informtion that may help transportation researchers to influence Federal actions on economic regulatory reform. Many papers report on the findings of studies made to analyze the implications of regulatory reform and then are immediately forgotten. This paper reports on an attempt to provide a means for avoiding this situation in a related regulatory change research area. First, it describes specific Federal agency policy-making channels in a major area of transportation regulation, namely energy materials transport. Then it suggests methods for stimulating these channels toward implementation of regulatory and legislative energy-conservation policies in this area. Because of the multi-modal pervasiveness of energy materials transport and today's increasing importance of transporation fuel costs, it is anticipated that understanding these policy-making channels and implementation techniques can also benefit transportation economic reform researchers. 17 references. (ERA citation 04:043206)