Am 31. Oktober 2020 scheint das Bau- und Planungschaos, das den Ruf deutscher Ingenieurkunst in der Welt nachhaltig beschädigte, nun einen Abschluss zu finden: Der neue Flughafen ist fertig und kann eröffnet werden. Die Wirtschaft der Hauptstadtregion dürfte durch die neue Infrastruktur...

Innovation, Dynamik und eine gewisse Veränderungsbereitschaft der Bürger sind unerlässliche Faktoren für die Reformfähigkeit eines Staates, der stetiges Wachstum sowie Wohlstand generiert. Doch immer häufiger kommt es vor allem bei öffentlichen Infrastrukturprojekten zum Phänomen des...

Innovation, Dynamik und eine gewisse Veränderungsbereitschaft der Bürger sind unerlässliche Faktoren für die Reformfähigkeit eines Staates, der stetiges Wachstum sowie Wohlstand generiert. Doch immer häufiger kommt es vor allem bei öffentlichen Infrastrukturprojekten zum Phänomen des...

The famous Mohring-Harwitz theorem states that, under certain technical conditions, the degree of self-financing of congested infrastructure is equal to the elasticity of the capacity cost function in the optimum, so that under neutral scale economies exact self-financing applies. Although the...

Decisions on expanding airport capacity are often controversial. Environmental impacts mean airport planning decisions are subjected to thorough public scrutiny even when financed by private investors. Where public funds are to be invested, issues of competition between airports and between the...

This report expands the quantitative assessment of airline responses to expansion at Gatwick and Heathrow. For this assessment the same methodology was used as in the second study and again the results are been broken down into impacts on scarcity rents, competition and connectivity.

The New International Airport of Mexico City (NAICM) should position Mexico as a regional hub and improve its competitiveness. It is scheduled to be operational in 2020 in answer to the pressing need for the expansion of the city's airport capabilities. The airport, whose construction is managed...

The New International Airport of Mexico City (NAICM) should position Mexico as a regional hub and improve its competitiveness. It is scheduled to be operational in 2020 in answer to the pressing need for the expansion of the city's airport capabilities. The airport, whose construction is managed...

We have studied the incentives of forming coalitions in the Airport Problem. It has shown that in this class of games, if coalitions form freely, the Shapley value does not lead to the formation of grand or coalitions with many players. Just a coalition with a few number of players forms to act...

We have studied the incentives of forming coalitions in the Airport Problem. It has shown that in this class of games, if coalitions form freely, the Shapley value does not lead to the formation of grand or coalitions with many players. Just a coalition with a few number of players forms to act...

The Airports Commission was set up by the Government of the United Kingdom in 2012 to take an independent look at the UK’s future airport capacity needs. It has been tasked with setting out the nature, scale, and timing of steps needed to maintain the UK’s status as an international hub for...

Die Luftfahrt zählt zu den wachstumsstärksten Branchen in Deutschland. Zudem ist die gute Erreichbarkeit der Wirtschaftszentren für eine stark auf das Ausland fokussierte Volkswirtschaft ein wichtiger Standortfaktor. Doch der Ausbau der Flughafeninfrastruktur kommt in Deutschland nicht...