The best transportation system in the world : railroads, trucks, airlines, and American public policy in the twentieth century / Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely, Paul F. Barrett
Preface and acknowledgments -- Seeking a new regulatory regime in transportation: railroad consolidation in the 1920s -- The new transportation problem: the politics of transportation coordination, 1925-1940 -- Constructing commercial aviation, 1944-1973 -- Run-up to deregulation: surface transportation, 1949-1970 -- Transportation in a "presidential nation" -- Richard M. Nixon and planning for deregulation, 1970-1974 -- Gerald R. Ford and presidential deregulation, 1974-1977 -- Jimmy Carter and deregulation of the "best transportation system in the world," 1977-1980 -- The American state and transportation, 1980-1995.