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In His Insightful Study, Gregory L. Thompson Examines The Demise Of Passenger Trains And The Rise Of Buses In California And Demonstrates That Railroad Management's Shortsighted Response To The Growing Use Of Automobiles Contributed To Its Own Decline. After Peaking About 1910, The Use Of Intercity Passenger Trains Rapidly Gave Way To The Onslaught Of The Automobile. For The Next Three Decades, Railroad Managers Tried, But Failed, To Adapt The Passenger Train To The New Competition. Although Previous Studies Have Suggested That Regulation And A Conspiracy Between Rail And Bus Management Played A Significant Role In The Decline Of The Industry, Thompson Reaches A Different Conclusion. Focusing On The California Operations Of Two Major Railroads And The Largest Intercity Bus Company In The United States, He Demonstrates That Railroad Management Failed To Accurately Assess The Demand For Its Service And The Costs Of Providing It. According To Thompson, Railroad Management's Faulty Planning And Its Misleading Accounting System Eventually Did The Passenger Train In, While Superior Corporate Planning Within Bus Companies Led To Their Success. Based On Previously Unseen Data, The Passenge

Author

Gregory Lee Thompson, 1946-

Publisher

Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814206096

Subjects

Business, Social Science, History

Updated

2026-03-24