Yang, Hangjun; Zhang, Anming - In: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 46 (2012) 10, pp. 1322-1333
This paper investigates the effects of competition between air transport and high-speed rail (HSR). While airlines are assumed to maximize profit, HSR may maximize a weighted sum of profit and social welfare. We show that both airfare and HSR fare fall as the weight of welfare in the HSR’s...