There is growing international interest in the impact of regulatory controls on the supply of housing The UK has a particularly restrictive planning regime and a detailed and uncertain process of development control linked to it. This paper presents the findings of empirical research on the time...

There is widespread concern about the need to deliver increased housing supply in the UK in order to address problems of affordability. One problem in achieving this is the nature of the planning system. UK housebuilding proposals need to be approved by Local Planning Authorities. The system in...

There is growing international interest in the impact of regulatory controls on the supply of housing The UK has a particularly restrictive planning regime and a detailed and uncertain process of development control linked to it. This paper presents the findings of empirical research on the time...

Housebuilding is frequently viewed as an industry full of small firms. However, large firms exist in many countries. Here, a comparative analysis is made of the housebuilding industries in Australia, Britain and the USA. Housebuilding output is found to be much higher in Australia and the USA...

Revenue management (RM) is one area of research and practice that has gained significant attention in the past decade. The practice originated in the airline industry, where the idea was to maximize revenues obtained from a fixed amount of resources through differentiation/segmentation and...

The U.S. National Airspace System (NAS) is inherently highly stochastic. Yet,many existing decision support tools for air traffic flow management take a deterministic approach to problem solving. In this study, we focus on the flight departure delays because such delays serve as inputs to many...

Regulatory regimes can influence the structures of the industries being regulated and the residential development industry is no exception. Such industrial effects are often the direct goals of regulation policy but in the case of housebuilding it is a generally unrecognised by-product of...

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This paper examines whether office replacement cycles are likely to arise in the future, given the bunch nature of office building in the past into a series of building booms. Time series data on holdings of UK office buildings by investors are examined to see whether there is any evidence of a...