Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 388
Cover Image
Airports performance and efficiency evaluation based on multidimentional tools
Jardim, João Pedro; Baltazar, Maria Emília; Silva, Jorge - 2012
Airport benchmarking depends on airport operational performance and efficiency indicators, which are important issues … complex indicators to evaluate airports performance and efficiency as well as several techniques to benchmark such … infrastructures. The general aim of this work is the development of airport performance and efficiency predictive models using robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508186
Cover Image
When trains go faster than planes : the strategic reaction of airlines in Spain
Jiménez, Juan Luis; Betancor, Ofelia - 2011
Plans for the development of high speed railways lines (HSR) in Spain are widespread. At the beginning of 2010 four HSR lines were operating in routes where the air transport mode used to be dominant. In this paper we examine through econometric means the air carriers' reaction to these HSR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548762
Cover Image
Break-ups of municipal health centre federations : expenditure and efficiency effects
Kortelainen, Mika; Luoma, Kalevi; Moisio, Antti - 2014 - Preliminary draft
efficiency of health centres in Finland between 1990 and 2003. To address potential non-random or endogenous treatment assignment … we also utilize propensity score difference-in-difference approach. For cost efficiency estimation we use the non …-parametric order-alpha method that is more suitable for small samples than the traditional efficiency estimators. Our results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490076
Cover Image
Airport size and urban growth
Sheard, Nicholas - 2015
This paper estimates the effects of airports on economic growth in US metropolitan areas. The estimation uses a novel technique to identify the effects of changes in local airport sizes from overall changes in the air travel network. Airport size is found to have a positive effect on local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485227
Cover Image
Air accessibility and the export of Italian manufacture in Europe : evidence at regional level
Alderighi, Marco; Gaggeroz, Alberto A. - 2013
We study the link between air accessibility (measured by non-stop flights offer) and the manufacturing export of the Italian regions in Europe using a panel of 12,000 half-yearly observations ranging from 1998 to 2010. The analysis shows that the supply of non-stop flights provided by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506164
Cover Image
Light aviation and flight safety : monitoring system for unpressurised cabins : flight and physiological data acquisition
Marques, André; Zorro, Sara; Silva, Jorge; Patrão, Luís - 2012
The majority of light aviation aircrafts cabins are unpressurised and this may pose risks for the safety of both pilots and passengers. As altitude increases partial oxygen pressure decreases and this situation may lead to early stages of hypoxia affecting pilot's capabilities to perform simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508182
Cover Image
Technical and economic feasibility of the use of airships within two Portuguese market niches : the tourism and the urban logistic case studies
Santos, Rafael; Silva, Jorge - 2012
All over the world there are several countries where airships are being used for military and civilian purposes. The rebirth of this mean of transportation, capable of easily overcoming some deficiencies of the conventional ones, brings medium and long term economic benefits. In addition, they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509240
Cover Image
Interrelationships among the airports and the hinterland players : a value network analysis approach
Baltazar, Maria Emília; Silva, Jorge; Pato, Margarida Vaz - 2012
The measure of an airport performance and its efficiency is generally made using operational and financial data, thus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515011
Cover Image
A few notes on the spatial development of the tourism industry in Madeira
Almeida, António - 2015
Introduction: This paper analysis the spatial dynamics of the development of tourism industry in a leading tourism destination in Portugal. Previous studies focused on the spatial dynamics of the tourism industry had shown that, at the very begin, hotels and tourism facilities are located in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476386
Cover Image
Mapping local productivity advantages in Italy : industrial districts, cities or both?
Di Giacinto, Valter; Gomellini, Matteo; Micucci, Giacinto; … - 2011 - Preliminary draft, this version: February 2011
In this paper we compare the magnitude of local productivity advantages associated to two different spatial concentration patterns in Italy, i.e. urban areas (UA) and industrial districts (ID). UA typically display a huge concentration of population and host a wide range of economic activities,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524449