Ten years have passed since the European Commission obliged its member states to open their national handling markets to competition. This paper analyses whether the policy has allowed airlines to design efficient contractual and organisational solutions with their ramp-handling suppliers....

During the past thirty years, governments have sought to stimulate improvements in new car fuel economy to contribute to air quality, energy security, and climate change goals. We analysed the demand for new car fuel economy in the UK using a two-stage econometric model to investigate the...

States have competed against one another in a variety of fiscal venues. We demonstrate that toll revenues are another such arena, with states competing with those states from which they receive and/or send many commuters. Because the size of interstate commuters is small relative to intrastate...

The purpose of this paper is to further an understanding of the port sector through a systematic analysis of the existing studies assessing the economic efficiency and productivity of the sector. The emphasis is on the measurement methodologies, the variables used and the results in terms of the...

Disaggregated analysis of bus priority measures remains a largely unexplored research area in transport. This research investigates such a scheme in Dublin, Ireland using a random parameters logit (RPL) specification for a stated choice survey of 1,000 catchment area residents. Welfare estimates...

This paper tests the empirical link between a firm's financial conditions and its probability of entering new markets in the US airline industry. The analysis is conducted using airline data from the top 500 airport-pairs during the period between 1993 and 2003. The result shows that a legacy...

With the increase in the price of oil, fuel surcharges have become a common and widely used practice in the transportation industry. Firms ask consumers to pay these surcharges in addition to the base price. Assuming that (i) fuel prices randomly fluctuate, (ii) fuel prices affect firms' costs...

Airlines frequently use code-share agreements allowing each other to market seats on flights operated by partner airlines. Regulation may allow code-share agreements with antitrust immunity (cooperative price setting), or without antitrust immunity, or not at all. I compare the relative welfare...

Recently, the Federal Aviation Administration proposed to auction slots at the three New York airports, which are among the most congested and delay prone in the United States. The new policy would have cleared up a very muddled airport congestion policy. This paper reviews the history of slots...

In this paper, we conduct a pan-European efficiency analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a particular focus on economies of vertical integration. We test the hypothesis that integrated railways realise economies of scope and, thus, produce railway services with a...