Highways and Highway Transportation by George R. Chatburn

CHAPTER VI

INTERRELATION BETWEEN HIGHWAY AND OTHER KINDS OF TRANSPORTATION 159 Classification of Transportation. Railroads have not always Acted Honorably. Quantity Production and Division of Labor Applied to Railway Transportation, to Motor Transport. Automobiles Cutting into Railway Earnings, Babson’s Prediction. Effect of Motor Competition on Interurban Trolley Lines, on Street Car Lines, Taxicabs and Jitneys, Buses, Trackless Trolleys. Guaranteeing Earnings of Street Car Companies, Legitimate Fields of Transportation Agencies. Length of Haul for Economic Trucking. Reduction of Rates and Expenses. Carving out New Fields. Still Room for all Kinds of Transportation.