Air Transport

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Peter Forsyth, Kenneth John Button, Peter Nijkamp
Edward Elgar Pub., 2002 - Transportation - 673 pages
This authoritative new collection of 40 articles, presents the most important classics and contemporary papers on air transport.

It features a comprehensive range of topics, including airline costs and productivity, pricing and yield management, competitive behaviour and strategic alliances, environmental aspects, and aviation in developing nations. Congestion and investment in airports, and regulation of airports are also covered.

The articles selected cover theoretical analyses of air transport, empirical findings and discussion of policy issues such as liberalisation and deregulation of airline markets. The collection highlights current policy issues and emerging trends which will be of interest to students of transport economics, industrial organisation and regulation. It will also be a useful reference tool for policy makers and regulators, airline executives and to consultants in aviation and transport.

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Contents

Douglas W Caves Laurits R Christensen and Michael W Tretheway
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David W Gillen Tae Hoon Oum and Michael W Tretheway 1990
110
Andrew S Joskow Gregory J Werden and Richard L Johnson
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About the author (2002)

Edited by Peter Forsyth, Professor of Economics, Monash University, Australia, Kenneth Button, University Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, US and Peter Nijkamp, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS) in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands and the Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi, Iasi, Romania

Bibliographic information

TitleAir Transport
An Elgar reference collection
Volume 2 of Classics in transport analysis
EditorsPeter Forsyth, Kenneth John Button, Peter Nijkamp
Editionillustrated
PublisherEdward Elgar Pub., 2002
ISBN1840645490, 9781840645491
Length673 pages
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Transportation / Aviation / Commercial
  
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