We employ a derived demand model to estimate modal input demand elasticities for feedstock transportation logistics using a pooled cross section of corn shipments to large-scale ethanol plants from 95 grain elevators. As expected, results indicate that truck dominates feedstock traffic based on...

Ride-hailing services have the potential to expand access to opportunities, but out-of-pocket costs may limit the benefits of ride-hail for low-income individuals. This paper examines how ride-hailing services can shape spatial and socioeconomic differences in access to opportunities while...

Transport is the life of a city and choices on public transit options are fundamental decisions about a city's future growth and development. An efficient transportation system increases accessibility and improves quality of life. In terms of maintaining a transit-friendly city form and ensuring...

Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems (IVSS) promise significant traffic safety improvements, which means from a societal point of view that resource savings can be realized and the allocative efficiency can be optimized. Therefore, transport policy has a high willingness to support and to ensure...

The value of time used in commuting to work is an important component of the total cost of these trips. This document estimates that, on average, a worker needs 57 minutes a day, which in monetary terms is equivalent to 8 euros a day. This cost differs by area, being the workers living in the...

Consider two profit-maximizing service firms in the presence of congestion-sensitive customers. Firms set their prices and compete to capture market share. We compare cases where the firms can invest either independently (competition) or jointly (co-opetition) in congestion-reduction (CR)...

This paper proposes a model of the ridesourcing market in presence of traffic congestion and with the provision of both solo and pooling services. Our analysis of the first-best solution shows that, under a highly congested scenario, the ridesourcing platform may enjoy non-negative profits....

America's surface transportation infrastructure needs significant improvements and rehabilitation, yet Congress is uncertain about how to do this. Some want to significantly increase federal spending on infrastructure. Others want to end deficit financing of transportation and end federal...

The following article investigates the impact of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran's aviation industry. Although the Iranian government has used the aviation industry orders for new modern aircraft to showcase the economic benefits of such agreement, the reality is that...

Purpose: The main goal of this study is to exact an optimal forecasting method by answering the research question: which is the best model for capturing short-term seasonal components of passenger traffic in Greek coastal shipping? Design/methodology/approach: There are not a lot of scientific...