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Transportation policy and economic regulation : essays in honor of Theodore Keeler /
Transportation Policy and Economic Regulation: Essays in Honor of Theodore Keeler addresses a number of today's important transportation policy issues, exploring a variety of transportation modes, and examining the policy implications of a number of alternatives. Theodore Keeler had a distingui...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title page; Table of Contents; Copyright; List of Contributors; 1: Theodore Keeler's impact on transportation economics and policy; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Airlines; 3. Airports; 4. Railroads; 5. Trucking; 6. Automobile regulation; 7. Highway pricing and investment and resource allocation in urban transportation; 8. Remaining chapters; 2: Theodore Keeler's analysis of the early effects of deregulation of US transportation industries; Abstract; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Applied economic analysis; 2.3. Keeler's views on the forces for regulatory reform; 2.4. Aviation.
- 2.5. Long-haul freight transportation2.6. Conclusions; 3: Commoditization and segmentation of aviation markets; Abstract; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Impact of entry by LCCs; 3.3. Airline business models; 3.4. Long-haul low cost; 3.5. Summary and conclusions; Acknowledgements; 4: Mergers, efficiency, and productivity in the railroad industry: an attribute-incorporated data envelopment analysis approach; Abstract; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Productivity and efficiency; 4.3. Conceptual framework; 4.4. Data sources; 4.5. Empirical application; 4.6. Summary and conclusions; 4.7. Appendix A.
- 4.8. Appendix B5: Policy in the deregulated and newly competitive railroad industry: a global analysis; Abstract; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. US competition policy issues; 5.3. Competition policy issues in North America; 5.4. Competition policy issues outside North America; 5.5. Summary and conclusion; Acknowledgments; 6: Designing future merger policy in north american rail: lessons from the past?; Abstract; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. The turning point-an overview of the (failed) CNBN merger; 6.3. Qualitative data and analysis; 6.4. Comparing merger information from yesterday to today.
- 6.5. ConclusionsEpilogue; 7: Ocean container shipping; Abstract; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. An historical overview of ocean container shipping; 7.3. Ocean container shipping lines' business strategies in a changing economic environment; 7.4. Containerization in the United States; 7.5. Conclusion; 8: Evolution of transportation policy and economics; Abstract; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Highway infrastructure finance; 8.3. Impacts of a VMT tax; 8.4. Transit investment and subsidies; 8.5. Multimodal investment decision-making for freight; 8.6. Conclusions: the role of the economist.
- 9: Competing with the private sector: the welfare-maximizing responseAbstract; 9.1. Introduction; 9.2. The model; 9.3. Empirical parameters; 9.4. Results; 9.5. Conclusions; 10: Devolution of transportation: reducing big-government involvement in transportation decision making; Abstract; 10.1. Introduction: the role of government in transportation; 10.2. The role of governance in transportation; 10.3. Transport propensities and devolution; 10.4. The implications for devolution; 10.5. Conclusions; 11: The elusive effects of CAFE standards; Abstract; 11.1. Introduction; 11.2. Modeling issues.