Regulation and rate-making. (Chapter 7).
Introduction AN EARLY AREA OF SPECIALIZATION IN ECONOMICS dealt with theoretical and practical questions on the regulation of transportation and public utility concerns. The Munn vs. Illinois decision of the Supreme Court and the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 moved the railroad industry toward a regulated status,...

Taxes and transport externalities (1).
Abstract The paper reviews the role of taxation in controlling transport externalities. It argues that the design of transport taxes should take into account pre-existing tax distortions in the economy and looks at the implications of restrictions on the transport instruments at the disposal of the policy...

Transportation planning and the Clean Air Act.
I. Introduction Of all life's necessities, air is the one that people partake of most directly. Water can be filtered and food can be cleaned or grown organically, but we breath everything that we emit into the atmosphere.(1) Of all the sources of air pollution, western society is arguably...

Running on empty: the case for a sustainable national transportation system.
I. Introduction:A New Era in Transportation Policy With the election of the 104th Congress, our nation's federal government began a potentially historic transition. What is emerging from new concepts being considered and adopted in the executive and legislative branches is a government that in many respects will be leaner,...

Long journey to free trade in U.S.-Canada airline services.
* A list of acronyms used in this article is provided on page 47. A professor of management at Texas A&M University, Michael W. Pustay is the author of International Business (with Ricky Griffin, 1996), "The Globalizing Airline Industry: The Need for a New International Policy Regime," in M. Kreinin,...

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die: the story of the Transatlantic Common Aviation Area.
The Transatlantic Common Aviation Area (TCAA, also known as the Common Transatlantic Aviation Area, CTAA, or simply the Common Aviation Area, CAA) (1) is a revolutionary idea in the field of international aviation, seeking to move beyond the framework that has dominated the industry for over half a century....

Advocacy update: charting a course for the future: a new Congress brings new challenges.
Since the 109th Congress came to a close at the end of 2005 and we're looking to at the year ahead, it's an appropriate time to take stock of what NRPA achieved in terms of national legislation, national policy development, and the increasingly important realm of federal rules and...

Effects of minimum drinking age laws: review and analyses of the literature from 1960 to 2000.
THE MINIMUM legal drinking age (MLDA) is the most well-studied alcohol control policy in the United States (Wagenaar and Toomey, 2000). The intention of this policy is to lower alcohol use and its associated problems among youth. Following Prohibition, most states established an age21 MLDA. During the early 1970s,...

Air travel in Canada can be less costly and more flexible: C.D. Howe Institute report.
Toronto, April 10, 2003 -- The time has come to make air travel in Canada less expensive and more flexible, though Ottawa must choose its policies with great care or risk making airline transport even less appealing in the long term, a C.D. Howe Institute report released today says....

Airline Finance News - North America.
May 5, 2008 US Senate, which earlier this week appeared on the verge of finally passing a long-stalled FAA reauthorization bill, failed to agree on both procedural rules for the proposed legislation's floor debate and whether amendments regarding airline pension plans should be included. Aviation Subcommittee Chairman...