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Societal costs of traffic crashes and crime in Michigan: 2011 update

Kostyniuk, LP; Molnar, LJ; St. Louis, RM; Zanier, N; Eby, DW - 2011

Cost estimates, including both monetary and nonmonetary quality-of-life costs specific to Michigan, wereestimated for overall traffic crashes and index crimes by experts in the field of economics of traffic crashesand crimes. These cost estimates were applied to 2009 Michigan traffic crash and...

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Workforce planning for a global automotive economy.

Belzowski, B. M. - 2006

Globalization of the automotive industry continues to accelerate as offshore manufacturers and suppliers open production facilities in North America, and North American companies invest overseas and throughout the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) region. But perhaps the most...

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In the tank: how oil prices threaten automakers' profits and jobs

McManus, W. S. - 2005

Transportation Research Institute's Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation (OSAT) at the University of Michigan, says that …Also available at http://www.nrdc.org/air/transportation/inthetank/contents.asp …

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Market inefficiencies in the equalization of regional unemployment rate differentials in less-developed countries

Gonzalez, Patricio Alejandro Aroca - 1995

The efficiency of the migration process as a market mechanism to equalize regional unemployment rate differentials in less developed countries has been the main aim of this thesis. First, we develop a dynamic model which allows us to describe the worker migration decision under different...

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Three essays on demand and cost in the United States domestic airline industry

Carnall, Michael Allen - 1996

Previous research on airline demand has recognized the existence of at least two customer types, business passengers with high valuations of time and low price elasticity, and tourists having low valuations of time and high price elasticity. Attempts to differentiate between these two groups...

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RINs and the ethanol supply chain: an alternative view

Figer, Luiz - 2011

results of this thesis showthat there is much to understand from a comprehensive analysis of how transportation costs andthe … savings from RINs are estimated to beup to 50% of the total transportation costs in the ethanol blending sector, or up to $400 …

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Market power and transportation price formation: Theory and an application to the captive shipper problem

Woock, Rodger Allan - 1990

We develop a spatial model of bulk commodity transportation price formation. The spatial transportation price model is …, uniform or discriminatory transportation pricing is the dominant type of price information. Other measures are derived which …' ability to extract quasi-rents is derived. A modification of the Lerner index specific to transportation prices first proposed …

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Gender, occupation, and time allocation for market work, commuting, and housework

Yi, Yun-Ae - 1994

The objectives of this study were to investigate the determinants of employed women's allocation of time for housework, market work, and commuting; to compare the time allocation by women and men in relation to their hourly wages; and also to compare the time allocation of women in...

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Development of procedural expertise to support multiattribute spatial decision-making

Lee, Insung - 1994

This study focuses on the development of process oriented support for planning support systems. To support exploration of ill-structured planning problems, planning support systems should be incorporated within planning processes, decision-oriented rather than just analysis-oriented, and able to...

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Measuring the impact of network changes by the airlines in the deregulated environment

Reynolds, Aisling Josette Maria - 1989

Recent literature in economics has failed to focus or take adequate account of the role of airline networks. In this dissertation the network is examined at the national/industry level, and also at the individual firm level. Statistical measures which capture pertinent characteristics of an...

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