A substantial part of airports’ revenues relates to charges covering the costs of services supplied by the airport. Charges are imposed on carriers, which in turn pass them or a percentage of them, on to passengers. In the present chapter, special attention is given to regional airports...

This paper analyses equilibrium fares that arise from Collusion, Cournot, Stackelberg, Bertrand and Sequential Price Competition when two profit maximising transport firms produce symmetrically differentiable services and have identical costs. Special focus is placed on how different equilibrium...

This paper analyses which factors can explain the planned funding for 83 different stretches of roads in the Norwegian national road network during the ten-year period from 2010 to 2019. Previous studies have focused on the extent to which Norwegian politicians use the results of cost-benefit...

This article examines how different factors influence the number of times articles in the five most recognized transportation journals are cited. The effects of most of the explanatory variables indicating the characteristics of articles, authors and journals correspond with earlier studies of...

This article demonstrates that panel data estimation methods can be applied to derive operating costs for the highly regulated car ferry industry in Norway. The balanced data set includes 360 observations of ferry crossings from 1995 to 2005. Compared with cross-sectional results from earlier...

<title>Abstract</title> In 2004, one of the biggest ferry operators in Norway was found guilty of having intentionally attempted to defraud the state of about 113 million Norwegian kroner in subsidies by underreporting revenues and overstating costs during the period 1992--2002. The company and five of the top...

For passengers to reach the final destination of the trip it is often necessary to make use of the transport services provided by several firms. When these transport services follow in a natural transport chain they are characterized as complementarities and the firms providing the services can,...