A cost-efficiency analysis of European air navigation service providers

Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) as the third major component of the aviation industry have been less of a focus in research than their airline and airport counterparts. In this paper the authors analyse European ANSPs cost structures using a stochastic frontier analysis approach within a Bayesian estimation framework in order to incorporate regularity conditions. The authors' results show that ownership is not directly impacting neither the ANSPs cost structures nor their cost efficiencies and that the European ANSPs are operating on the increasing return to scale part of the technology, hence supporting the choice of ANSPs agglomeration.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.02.019
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856417312259
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/09658564
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Dempsey-Brench, Zara
  • Volta, Nicola
• Publication Date: 2018-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 11-23
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 111
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Aviation; Bayes' theorem; Cost effectiveness; Economic models; Ownership
• Identifier Terms: Air Navigation Service Providers
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Aviation; Economics; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01669160
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 17 2018 2:45PM