This paper deals with the price competition between airports and its effect on airline (carrier) networks. We construct a model that includes the following two features: (i) the carrier can choose its network configuration (point-to-point or hub-spoke) and (ii) airport operators can compete for...

We examine the effects of the US DOT׳s tarmac delay rule (effective April 29, 2010) on flight cancellations and gate departure delays, using carrier-level panel data for the period between May 2008 and April 2012. Our results suggest the DOT׳s investigations of tarmac delay incidents triggered...

This paper examines the efficiency and practicality of airport slot constraints using a deterministic bottleneck model of landing and takeoff queues. It adapts this congestion pricing model to determine the optimal timing and quantity of slot permits for any number of slot windows. Aircraft...

This paper develops an analytical framework for assessing the effects of workforce seniority integration resulting from a merger or consolidation of two firms, with a focus on the airline industry. In addition to developing the first formal model that can be used to analyze the relative equity...

According to the Cost Recovery Theorem the revenues from optimal congestion tolls pay for the capacity costs of an optimal-sized facility if capacity is perfectly divisible, and if user costs and capacity costs have constant scale economies. This paper extends the theorem to long-run uncertainty...

This paper investigates strategic interaction among airlines in product-quality choices. Using an instrumental variables approach, the paper estimates flight-frequency reaction functions, which relate an airline׳s frequency on a route to its own characteristics and to the frequencies of...

According to welfare-maximising principles, the price of parking must vary per day given shifts in daily demand. We study the economic consequences of not doing so by estimating the employees’ parking demand at an organisation that varies the price of parking by day of the week. We estimate...

We extend the traditional road investment model, with its focus on capacity and congestion as measures of capital and its utilization, to include free-flow speed as another dimension of capital. This has practical importance because one can view free-flow speed as a continuous proxy for road...

This paper explores reforms of pricing of private and public transport in Paris. Paris has used a policy of very low public transport prices and no road pricing. The Paris transport network is represented as a stylized concentric city with the choice between car, rapid rail, metro and buses as...

Donald Shoup, following Vickrey, has long advocated cashing out free and underpriced parking. How should this be implemented for curbside parking in practice, considering the stochasticity of curbside parking vacancies? Shoup has proposed adjusting meter rates such that, for each block and time...