Despite predictions that the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 would lower wage levels for airline workers, evidence of significant wage declines did not appear until the 1990s. The lagged wage effects suggest that airlines used alternative employment strategies to adjust to the new competitive...

This chapter considers the evidence on productivity growth in transportation industries and provides a critical review of efforts to distinguish the nature and sources of technical progress. Regulatory reform and technological advance have contributed to productivity growth that is nonneutral...

The authors of this paper, economic experts participating in the ADVISORS project, a large scale, pan-European study co-funded by the European Union (2000-2002), have developed a strategic evaluation methodology building upon multicriteria analysis (MCA), to assess advanced driver assistance...

This research uses Total Factor Productivity (TFP) techniques, with which we develop measures of productivity performance for public transit systems of varying size and location, and use this baseline to examine the potential contribution of alternative Advanced Vehicle Location (AVL)...

This paper describes a holistic view on how to design an ITS implementation policy. The design steps are the recognition of key actors, the analysis of their interests, the identification of implementation alternatives, the set-up of alternative implementation scenarios for each of them, their...

In spite of a number of before-and-after evaluation studies of ITS field operational tests and other deployments that have substantiated the favorable payoff of investments in ITS technology, ITS benefits assessment is not a straightforward matter and continues to pose significant challenges....

This chapter uses trucking firm-level information to address the paucity of multivariate analysis accounting for the safety effect of various types of truck driver compensation and firm financial performance. Using negative binomial regression models, we find that small firms with high liquidity...