This paper studies passengers' choice behavior in air travel. Products are defined as a unique combination of airline and flight itinerary while markets are defined as a directional round-trip air travel between an origin and a destination city. A structural econometric model is used to...

Data representing transshipment or re-exports are almost always excluded from analytical portrayals of international trade, yet transshipment is potentially an important phenomenon in understanding a number of economic questions, and is increasing in importance. Rapid technological change in...

This paper centers on recent developments in the maritime liner container shipping industry. Investigation focuses on the trade-offs between hub and spokes (H&S) organization of ports and ship size, between H&S and intermodalism, between H&S and development of forwarders, taking into account...

This paper puts forward an analysis suggesting a parallelism between hub and spokes networks in maritime transport and complex networks (such as the world-wide web, www). This possible parallelism is then used to explain the way networks in the Mediterranean may evolve. Since there is at present...