Island regions are generally dependent on transport services in order to retain cohesion with the mainland and for their socioeconomic development. Europe with its geography presents a number of island areas, with distinct characteristics, and transport needs. This paper focuses on the...

The service sector is evolving. New services and new modes of delivering existing services have increased the complexities of services negotiations in the WTO and in FTAs. The WTO negotiations focus on market access but FTAs tend to go beyond market access to seeking regulatory commitments from...

Japan, a country with approximately 127 million inhabitants is a net exporter of tourists despite the high economic development of the country and state of the art transportation means and infrastructure. The paper looks at the domestic tourism as well as the behavioral aspects of the Japanese...

The nation states created by the disintegration of the former Soviet Union inherited transportation systems ill suited to the needs of market economies. Technologies were often outmoded, too energy intensive and not well adapted to the on-time delivery of small shipments characteristic of a...

We investigate the entry of low-cost airlines (LCAs) in the German passenger transportation market. Using market research data and unique turnover and pricing information, we document that substitution rates between LCA and the incumbent rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) are substantial. As the...

The objective of the paper is to elaborate a simulation model to analyze inter- and intra-modal competition in the transport industry, based on game theory models. In our setting, consumers choose a transport mode and an operator to travel on a given city-pair; operators strategically decide on...

This paper analyzes the impact of the high-speed train (HST) roll-out on air carriers' route network decisions in China. Using unique hand-collected data on the timing of the HST roll-out and airline networks, we estimate a dynamic oligopoly model of air-route entry and exit that accounts for...

Throughout the last years, open big data has brought many challenges and revealed much potential for transportation research. In this study, we show how large open datasets can be used to accurately estimate the accessibility of transportation infrastructure for whole China, a scale...

We find that driving fatalities increased significantly following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, an event which prompted many travelers to substitute less-safe surface transportation for safer air transportation. After controlling for time trends, weather, road conditions, and...

Der Beitrag zeigt anhand einer typischen Verspätungssituation an einem intermodalen Verkehrsknoten die verkehrlichen und ökonomischen Effekte dieser Verspätung für verschiedene Stakeholder auf (Störfallszenario). Weiterhin wird ein Szenario zur Verbesserung der Verspätungssituation, in dem...