Recent years have witnessed a whole range of measures aimed at reducing government intervention in transport markets. A major element of this international movement has been significant shifts of responsibility for provision from the public to the private sector. While many aspects of...

The fragmentation of the European air navigation system has been identified as a cause of inefficiencies and additional costs. One of the problems is that since the different national systems are not independent of their neighbours, there might be issues of spatial autocorrelation, where the...

This article looks at factors which have affected the shares of public and private money that have been going into public--private transportation partnership investments in the US. It looks at a number of recent partnerships and relates the importance of the private sector to sets of...

This article examines the argument that the introduction of more private sector expertise into public sector transportation demand forecasting will improve its accuracy. An examination of a number of pure public and public--private US highway investment traffic demand forecasts, however, finds...

Much of the passenger air transportation market is served through hub-and-spoke operations with traffic being funneled through a number of major airports. This system has come under attack as protective of the airlines that center their operations on large hubs and is often as result, seen as...

The focus of this paper looks the role that institutional economics can play in helping our understanding of how environmental problems arise in the air transport sector, and how policy responses are derived. It is positive in the sense that it seeks to help our understanding of things, rather...

Air transportation is a highly safe mode of transportation. In part, this has come about as technological advances have improved aircraft, navigation systems, and air traffic control. There have also been significant advances in relevant ergonomics and in aircrew training and practices....

Deregulation of the US domestic air transport market in 1978 brought significant benefits to air travelers. The scheduled airlines have been given the freedom to improve their efficiency through being able to adopt efficient network strategies and more effective operating practices. This study...