This contribution focuses on some specific aspects of port investments related to the large amounts of capital needed for some types of port investments and the long payback time of the projects. The first part treats the problem of private and/or public involvement and the impact on the...

Transportation-related costs both at ports and for inland transportation are very high, which is essentially caused by the high cost of labor and construction of infrastructure. This condition, however, is also caused by protectionist policies in the domestic transportation field. This chapter...

In this chapter, we develop a SCGE model that covers the entire nation of Japan to clearly analyze the spillover impacts of the Haneda airport project. We then describe the spatial incidence of the project's benefits. Benefit incidence is summarized in a benefit incidence table (BIT), which...

In the past decade, low-cost carriers that offer point-to-point connections with frequent services have been consistently more profitable than those operating hub-and-spoke networks. Therefore, we study the advantages of each network as compared with the other. In addition to actual fares, time...