If one is asked to give an appraisal of airport development in metropolitan areas in Japan, an unsparing critic may not esteem it highly for three reasons. One, because planning for the secondary airport at Tokyo and Osaka was initiated too late to match growth in demand. Two, due to untimely...

Distance and transport cost matters for international trade but which is more relevant? What impact does transport policy such as Open Sky have on cost of trade? Using US export data by air transport with 21 trading partners for 1998-2002 we first find that airfare is more significantly...

Although there have been various studies on macro-economic effect of public investment, not much attention has been paid to the impact of actual accessibility realized by transport industry and infrastructure. In this paper, we performed a cross-sectional analysis of 47 prefectures in Japan...

With the advent of Shinkansen in 1964, a unique inter-city transport network in which high-speed railway and air transport developed simultaneously, emerged in Japan, and modal choice between them based on price and speed has been manifested. Looking ahead, the next generation high-speed...

In this chapter, we develop a SCGE model that covers the entire nation of Japan to clearly analyze the spillover impacts of the Haneda airport project. We then describe the spatial incidence of the project's benefits. Benefit incidence is summarized in a benefit incidence table (BIT), which...

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North America, Europe, and Asia are three largest regional blocks in the global aviation. EU has liberalized its aviation market within the region, following the north America. However, Asia is still left behind, and most of the markets in the region are governed by bilateral air service...