Henry Vega

Governance and institutions of transportation investments in U.S. mega‐regions

Abstract From a planning perspective, a mega‐region can be defined as an extended network of metropolitan centers and their surrounding areas, crossing county and state lines, linked by integrated labor markets, land use systems and transportation and communication infrastructure. From a governance perspective, delimiting the jurisdictional borders of a mega‐region is rather challenging due to the overlap of hierarchy of governance systems. It has been suggested that the effective management of existing transportation infrastructure and the planning and financing of new investments in these areas will need to operate under a regional framework of governance. What such regional framework might look like is still subject to debate. Despite years in the planning, currently no mega‐regional transportation initiative has been implemented in the U.S. This article uses descriptive and interpretative analysis to further the debate in two areas. It first reviews definitional issues in the existing literature as th...

Airlines Competing with Themselves: A Note on the Temporal Pattern of Fare Setting Prior to Departure

This paper looks at temporal fare discrimination used by airlines at the point of departure. The research posits that such fare discrimination is a by-product of service competition within the same carrier (e.g. a flight between A and B at 8:00 a. m. compared with a 9:00 a.m. flight between A and B by the same carrier). An empirical analysis of fares data within United States carriers is used. Results suggest that the multi-service airline neither sees its service offerings as internal competitors nor actively uses its multi-service offering advantage to compete with rivals.

Globalization and Transport

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