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[quote user="greyhounds"][quote user="futuremodal"] Every so-called transportation economist (Gallamore, Bitzen, et al) purporting to have an "unbiased" analysis of the effects of open access on the US rail system should be forced to use this cutting edge tool in all their railroad studies.  . [/quote] Emphasis added by me. I find it hard to believe FM actually said this.  I don't find it impossible to believe he said this, but it's so totalitarian and it so flies in the face of thought that it's hard to believe that anyone raised in an open society such as the US of A would say that some academics should be forced to think in any specific way. Zeta Tech is basically Randy Reesor.  I went to grad school with Randy.  He's a decent guy and he knows his stuff.  But he's not the Alpha and Omega of thought.  And he doesn't have the credentials or experience of Bob Gallamore. For FM to say that Gallamore should be forced to think in terms that Zeta Tech (Reesor) lays down is an insane travisty.  As is "Open Access". [/quote] Nice try at spin, Poindexter.  "Forced to use" as I said and stand by, is not even close to being the same as "forced to think" which you have subsequently attributed to me.  Like I've said before, once the antagonists of industrial evolution start spinning and throwing out such dracocian Big Brother spectors, they have all but admitted that they have lost the argument.    If an academic recieves federal money for his/her work, or is submitting research opinion as fodder for influencing public policy, said academics should be responsible enough not to omit reference works which are major variables in the subsequent discussion.  When they do, they should be forced to return any taxpayer funds used to support their research, and should be subsequently disqualified from making public policy suggestions.  It is a major flaw in all these rail studies that support the continuation of the anachronistic transportation system known as the "integrated railroad", that they leave out any discussion of track use cost analysis.  Applying something like the TrackShare program to an analysis of the presumed "efficiencies" of monopoly rail markets would probably blow away their hypothesis, especially when you consider the revenue potential to track owners of multiple users vs one user (even for a constant quantity of freight).
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