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https://doi.org/10.3141/1662-01

http://scholar.google.com...nson&publication_year=1999

The theoretical and empirical literature on the cost structure of the provision of air transportation is reviewed, and cost functions for air travel in the California corridor are specified and estimated. A full cost model is developed; it identifies and measures key cost components--user, carrier, infrastructure, time and congestion, noise, accident, and pollution costs. Applying the model to data for domestic air travel in the California corridor, the total long-run average cost is estimated to be 11 cents per passenger km traveled. The single largest cost category is owning and operating a plane. In general, because of large fixed-cost components, the average cost of infrastructure exceeds the marginal cost.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1662, Safety, Economic, Environmental, and Technical Issues in Air Transportation.

English

p. 1-9

1999

Transportation Research Record

0309070643

References (27) ; Tables (8)

Air transportation crashes; Air travel; Carriers; Cost estimating; Costs; Infrastructure; Mathematical models; Noise; Pollution; Time; Traffic congestion

User costs

California

Aviation; Economics; Environment; Finance; Highways; Society

TRIS, TRB

Sep 30 1999 12:00AM

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• DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW ORIENTATION INDEX FOR AIRPORT TERMINALS
• EVALUATING IMPROVEMENTS IN LANDSIDE ACCESS FOR AIRPORTS
• FUNDAMENTALS OF AIRPLANE ACCIDENT DYNAMICS: EXTRACTING MEANING FROM FATAL ACCIDENTS
• LIMITED STUDY OF FLIGHT SIMULATION EVALUATION OF HIGH-SPEED RUNWAY EXITS
• OPTIONS FOR AIRPORT APPROACH NOISE CONTROL: FLIGHT PROCEDURES, AIRCRAFT CERTIFICATION, AND AIRPORT RESTRICTIONS
• RAIL'S SHARE OF AIRPORT ACCESS: EXAMINING THE DATA
• RUNWAY OVERRUN RISK ASSESSMENT
• SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS THE IMPACTS OF VERY LARGE CAPACITY AIRCRAFT IN AIRPORT OPERATIONS AND PLANNING