An efficient air transport system is critical to countries attaining and sustaining healthy economies in an increasingly interconnected world economy. Competing successfully now means quick shipping over long distances at reasonable rates. Societies also prosper when people from different countries can travel around the world using efficient transport. This volume includes literature surveys and original empirical research examining airline efficiency in the twenty first century. Topics cover airline productivity, sources of airline efficiency, the cost and scope of operations in airline transport; airline productivity for different global regions; methodologies estimating productivity growth and efficiency. Further chapters on sources of airline efficiency examine fuel efficiency differences, efficiency in different stages of production, and the contributions of technological change, mergers, and low-cost carrier competition to efficiency. Chapters on the cost and scope of operations examine all-cargo carrier efficiency, gains from airline/high speed-rail cooperation, and airport economies of scope in passenger and freight operations.

About the Author
Edited by John D. Bitzan, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA James H. Peoples, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA Wesley W. Wilson, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

Reviews
Transport, economics, business, and engineering specialists from Australia, Europe, North America, Asia, and Brazil offer 13 chapters on airline efficiency. They address airline productivity, including productivity growth for different global regions and methodologies used to estimate growth and efficiency; sources of efficiency, including fuel efficiency differences, efficiency in different stages of production, and the contributions of technological change, mergers, and low-cost carrier competition; and the cost and scope of operations, including all-cargo efficiency, gains from airline/high-speed rail cooperation, and airport economics of scope in passenger and freight operations. -- Annotation * (protoview.com) *



Book Information
ISBN 9781785609404
Author John D. Bitzan
Format Hardback
Page Count 392
Imprint Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm