FULL COST OF AIR TRAVEL IN THE CALIFORNIA CORRIDOR
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.
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- This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1662, Safety, Economic, Environmental, and Technical Issues in Air Transportation.
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Authors:
- Gillen, D
- Levinson, David
- Publication Date: 1999
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 1-9
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 1662
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air transportation crashes; Air travel; Carriers; Cost estimating; Costs; Infrastructure; Mathematical models; Noise; Pollution; Time; Traffic congestion
- Uncontrolled Terms: User costs
- Geographic Terms: California
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics; Environment; Finance; Highways; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00771060
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0309070643
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Sep 30 1999 12:00AM