{"title":"Container terminals and utilisation of facilities.","authors":"B. Wiegmans, P. Rietveld, E. Pels, H. Woudenberg","doi":"10.1400/16920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/16920","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the authors outline production frontiers and efficiency coefficients for container terminals. The authors stress that efficient operations of container terminals are important in order to realize high productivity and low costs per unit of output. The authors report on a technical efficiency analysis study based on a database of European maritime, rail, and barge container terminals. The study include the terminal equipment, four forms of handling systems, the terminal berth, personnel, size of the container terminal, production process bottlenecks, and terminal activities. Results show large differences in terminal efficiency among maritime container terminals. Those terminals that specialize in containers only perform better than terminals that also handle non-containerized goods. When rail terminals and maritime terminals are compared, results show that the variation in the technical efficiency for maritime terminals is larger. In addition, terminals in larger ports are shown to be more efficiency than terminals in smaller ports. No systematic differences per country are found.","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129365913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"POLICY AND ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF LIBERALIZING INTERCONTINENTAL AVIATION MARKETS. PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION AND COMPETITION IN THE SOUTH AMERICA AND EUROPE MARKET","authors":"C. Román, Juan Carlos Martín","doi":"10.1400/16902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/16902","url":null,"abstract":"One of the main characteristic of liberalized aviation markets is the adoption of Hub-and-spoke networks by the majority of airlines. This kind of networks appeared in the airline industry after the deregulation of the US domestic market and they were developed as a consequence of the strategic behaviour adopted by airlines. This paper analyzes some policy and economic implications of new potential hubs in the air traffic routes between South-America and Europe as the main consequence of liberalization in this intercontinental market. Special attention is focused on analyzing how competition is going to be carried out under different network scenarios. (A)","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"437 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122879614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DESIGNING EFFECTIVE TRANSPORTATION POLICIES IN MUMBAI","authors":"P. Tiwari, T. Kawakami","doi":"10.1400/16865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/16865","url":null,"abstract":"This paper estimates the demand elasticities for modal choice in Mumbai using a nested multinomial logit model. Data used is from the 1990 Mumbai household survey. Results indicate that with an increase in the costs associated with private transit systems, their market share reduces. The outcome of this experiment is that highly elastic private mode demand and reduction in the market share of own vehicles is larger than that of hired vehicles. The increase in the costs of a mass transit system reduces the share of mass transit modes, but it is inelastic. Decrease in market share of one mode is accompanied by an increase in market share of other modes. Income has a positive effect on the market share of private transit modes, particularly on the own vehicles' share. Other explanatory variables such as distance have negative effect on mass transit systems, and duration has negative elasticity for all modes of transportation. Lastly, this paper evaluates pricing-based counterfactual travel reduction strategies in Mumbai. The paper concludes with policy prescription to improve Mumbai's transportation infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115529215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE LIBERALIZATION AND DE-REGULATION OF THE TRANSPORT SECTOR IN SUB- SAHARAN AFRICA","authors":"N. Mwase","doi":"10.1111/J.1467-8268.1993.TB00118.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1467-8268.1993.TB00118.X","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the various policies being implemented presently in sub-Sahara African countries geared to the liberalization and privatization of transport enterprises. Prerequisites for their effectiveness are, however, the restructuring of the institutional mechanisms for planning, managing and maintaining transport infrastructures (mainly roads), and an economic allocation of resources among competitive modes in the absence of any form of discrimination especially between railways and roads. (A)","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124254260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A time series analysis of the pricing behaviour of directly competitive 'low cost' airlines","authors":"D. Pitfield","doi":"10.1400/16930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/16930","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the competitive pricing behavior of airlines. The author collects data by route for cases where more than one airline is in direct competition. Data on fares is obtained from the Internet for two airlines with competing services to Alicante, Prague, and Malaga, departing from Nottingham East Midlands Airport in the United Kingdom, for the six working weeks up to and including the actual departure date. These data represent leisure traffic. The author also selected 2 domestic business destinations to illustrate price competition on business demand, where departure times were within a maximum of 20 minutes of each other; the author also compared competing services from London Gatwick (LGW) airport. The author concludes that one of the airlines studied is operating more characteristically as a low-cost carrier than the other. The influence of past fares is higher than the influence of the competitor's fares in one leisure travel case. The other leisure case suggests that the correlation between the series is more important than correlation within the series. The author sums up that it seems likely that each airline is preoccupied by the process of yield management and it is only through this that a competitor's fare offerings indirectly influence their behavior.","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"2006 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132713704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}