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• The Goal: Driving Up Asset UtilizationDecember 4, 2018 - 9:59 pm

  Past Challenges Before Hunter Harrison, the prevailing view was more locomotives, more railcars, and more crews allow for the movement of more volume. But because track and yard capacity is finite, adding more equipment creates congestion and slows the system. While it is counterintuitive, reducing fleet size enables a road to move more volume by […]

• Exploring Regional Jet Investment OpportunitiesNovember 19, 2018 - 4:39 pm

  What is a regional jet? The commercial aviation fleet consists of large passenger jets with over 100-seating capacity and regional jet aircraft with up to 100-seats capacity. Regional jets fly routes that can’t be flown profitably with the larger aircraft. About 43% of all domestic major carrier U.S. flights use the smaller regional jets to […]

• Rethinking Transportation Equipment Investment PlanningNovember 8, 2018 - 7:42 pm

  How Tax Law Changes Affect Investment Planning Recent tax law changes provide an opportunity for rethinking investment planning. Consider how you might optimally structure investment in air and rail transportation equipment in today’s tax environment. Planning offers advantages when a solid understanding of the various ‘decision contexts’ that give rise to tax opportunities are understood. […]