Scheduled services of tourist trains in Latin America: A growing market

Trains in Latin America and the Caribbean mainly serve as a means of mass transit, bearing passengers along local and suburban routes of cities and transporting freight beyond. Non-urban passenger trains almost disappeared during the last few decades of the twentieth century. In the new emerging markets, however, demand is based on the train itself or the scenery en route rather than a wish to arrive at a given station as in the past. The new tourist trains, which are often well-restored historical engines, are expensive to operate and their special characteristics make it difficult to integrate them with mass transit railway services. However, some may be profitable when run privately and others may have a social justification, based on the boost they can provide to economic development in the often isolated and relatively depressed areas where they tend to operate.

Technology and work organization in Latin American motor vehicle industries

Includes bibliography

Customs transit in the South American countries

Reseña los antecedentes institucionales del transporte terrestre internacional por carretera en Sudamérica: el tránsito aduanero en los convenios de transporte internacional: el tratamiento del tránsito aduanero en la ALALC; interés de los ministros de obras públicas y de transporte de los países del Cono Sur en el Convenio TIR; otras actividades.

Study of problems related with the establishment of motor-vehicle industries in developing countries

Information Paper, No 12

Case study on the manufacture of pistons and other motor-vehicle parts in Mexico

Information Paper, No 15

Cost-volume ratios in the motor-vehicle industry; final assembly

Information Paper, No 19