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Assessing the impact of the latest deregulatory developments in the EU28 transport industry production : a critical review based on empirical data
Koliousis, Ioannis - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 66 (2016) 1/2, pp. 3-21
The European Transport Industry has been heavily deregulated during the past 30 years, through initiatives that … opening the transport industry have had. By analyzing current data, the impact of economic deregulation on the volume of … transport industry production is studied. The empirical evidence confirm the positive impact on the system wide level suggesting …
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Energy, emissions, and social consequences of telecommuting
1994
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Economics of rural land-use change
Bell, Kathleen P. (contributor); Boyle, Kevin J. (contributor) - 2006
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Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?
Jacobsen, Mark R.; Sallee, James M.; Shapiro, Joseph S.; … - 2022
What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile for new vehicles. We assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these...
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Does transport behavior influence preferences for electromobility? : an analysis based on person- and alternative-specific error components
Bahamonde-Birke, Francisco - 2015
the contexts of transport mode choice and vehicle purchase situations. The results indicate the existenceof a strong … correlation between the individuals’ preferences in both experiments. This way, individuals favoring private transport also favor …
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Cultural Constraints on High-Speed Rail in the US : Is American Exceptionalism an Explanation?
Chen, Zhenhua - 2013
The development of high speed rail infrastructures in the US faces a great challenge given the concern of economic viability and political complexity. However, a deeper investigation reveals that most of these concerns and complexity issues can be explained from a cultural perspective, which...
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Funding Urban Mass Transit in the United States
Gordon, Michael - 2013
As urbanized areas have grown across the United States, roads have quickly developed with them. Yet many cities have developed this infrastructure at the cost of failing to adequately fund urban mass transit, in spite of the important services it provides for the poor, commuters, and the...
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Is the Policy Window Open for High-Speed Rail in the United States : A Perspective from the Multiple Streams Model of Policymaking
Chen, Zhenhua - 2015
With the election of a new government, intercity passenger rail, which had faded for years, is now back on President Obama's agenda. Technological innovation has brought focus to high speed intercity passenger rail transportation. This new focus has revealed too many people who are tired of...
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Evidence of Directional Price Discrimination in the U.S. Airline Industry
Luttmann, Alexander - 2020
This paper explores possible determinants that may affect an airline's decision to charge passengers different roundtrip fares depending on trip origin, a case of directional price discrimination. Such fare differences cannot be the result of differences in cost, as the cost of flying a...
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The High-Speed Rail Money Sink : Why the United States Should Not Spend Trillions on Obsolete Technology
Institute, Cato; O'Toole, Randal - 2021
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s proposal to make the United States a “world leader” in high‐​speed rail would add more than $4 trillion to the federal debt for construction of new rail lines plus tens of billions of dollars of annual deficit spending to subsidize operating...
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