This technical report describes the results of an intensive test campaign involving two different electric vehicles. The first was a battery electric vehicle (i.e. fully electric) and the second was a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Both were tested in the Vehicle Emissions Laboratory (VELA) 9...

This chapter considers the productivity of 77 airlines between 1980 and 2013. We do so by estimating a stochastic frontier and decomposing the total factor productivity growth into efficiency, technical and scale efficiency change. Our results show that, on average, airlines increased...

"With the proliferation of academic journals and the increased importance attributed to research papers for academic careers, the tradition of writing book manuscripts has become less popular in social sciences. However, there still is a point in writing a book to provide an 'unified overview'...