Flight delays, capacity investment and social welfare under air transport supply-demand equilibrium

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 965-980

  Zou, Bo ^a   Hansen, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Equilibrium; Flight delays; Infrastructure capacity investment; Social welfare

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRCRAFT; COMMERCE; COMPETITION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST REDUCTION; PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

AIR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; AVIATION INFRASTRUCTURE; CAPACITY INVESTMENT; ECONOMIES OF DENSITIES; EQUILIBRIUM APPROACHES; FLIGHT DELAYS; INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL WELFARE;

INVESTMENTS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRLINE INDUSTRY; COMPETITIVENESS; DEMAND ANALYSIS; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

EID: 84860173198     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2012.02.015     Document Type: Article

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