Competitive Interaction between Airports, Airlines and High-Speed Rail

Itf

No 2009/7, OECD/ITF Joint Transport Research Centre Discussion Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: This paper summarizes, structures, and provides some context for discussions of the round table mentioned in the title. The first part of the paper focuses on sources of market power for airports and on policy responses. When an airport is congested and competition with other airports is limited, regulation may be justified, and the dual till approach likely works best. In other cases, however, policy should establish conditions for competition to emerge as much as possible, instead of attempting to design a general regulatory framework. The second part of the paper discusses elements of climate change policy in aviation. Including aviation in emission trading schemes is a sensible idea, but should not be expected to produce major cuts in CO2-emissions from aviation; containing its growth possibly is a more realistic, yet ambitious, objective. High-speed rail is justified in a number of situations, but is not a general alternative for air travel and certainly not a second-best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from aviation.

Date: 2009-06-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-ene and nep-mic
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (11)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1787/223853273815 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oec:itfaaa:2009/7-en

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in OECD/ITF Joint Transport Research Centre Discussion Papers from OECD Publishing Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).