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Time-dependent transport network improvement and tolling strategies

Szeto, WY; Lo, HK - 2008

In times of constrained resources, the government has three strategies, among others, to improve the transportation network over the planning horizon without relying on public expenditures to finance these improvements. The first is the government-as-the-provider strategy where the government...

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Alternative scenarios for Federal transportation policy. Volume I. Summary. First year final report

Friedlaender, A.; Simpson, R. - 2008

A summary is given of research evaluating the economic effects of existing and prospective federal policies governing intercity and international freight and passenger transportation enterprises in the economy of the United States. The analysis encompasses all modes of transportation, including...

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Transport of solid commodities via freight pipeline: cost estimating methodology. Volume III, parts A and B. First year final report

Warner, J.A.; Morlok, E.K.; Gimm, K.K.; Zandi, I. - 2008

In order to examine the feasibility of an intercity freight pipeline, it was necessary to develop cost equations for various competing transportation modes. This volume presents cost-estimating equations for rail carload, trailer-on-flatcar, truck, and freight pipeline. Section A presents...

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Handbook for preservation of local railroad service. Final report

Patton, E.P.; Langley, C.J. Jr. - 2008

Throughout the United States, there is an accelerating abandonment of redundant and/or unprofitable light-density railroad lines. This abandonment can be economically harmful to both the shippers and the communities that were previously served. Although greater dependence upon truck...

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E-business and transportation: quantifying impacts: overall system & railway industry levels

Ferreira, L. - 2003

-business in railways. The main aims of the project are to: Map information flows and supply chain participant requirements …

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Qantas: The High Flyer of the Airline Industry?

Tywoniak, Stephane; Galvin, Peter - 2007

months.' Qantas' record profit for 2003-04 were in sharp contrast with the financial performance of most airlines worldwide …

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Deregulation and globalisation: process, effects and future challenges to air transport markets

Wang, Zhi H. - 2004

different regions' air transport markets. This has impacted on the configuration of strategic airlines alliances. Deregulation …

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The Airlines Efficiency Myth

Mickhail, G.; Murphy, B.; Farrell, E. - 2006

One of the emerging issues with the internationalisation of accounting in enabling the globalisation of markets is its implicit role in privileging the destabilising social effect of globalisation, which risks alienating emerging economies and contributing to global instability. Accountants’...

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The transferability of the low-cost model to long-haul airline operations

Francis, Graham; Dennis, Nigel; Ison, Stephen G.; … - 2007

with a few notableexceptions low-cost airlines have operated on short-haul routes. This paper examines the extent to which …

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Essays on pricing under uncertainty

Gan, Li (contributor) - 2008

airlines. (5) It controls for potential endogeneity of sales usingdynamic panels.The first essay tests the empirical importance … probabilities. Thesecond essay is the first study to provide formal evidence of stochastic peak-load pricingin airlines. It shows … that airlines learn about the demand and respond to earlysales setting higher prices when expected demand is high and more …

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