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Airport Economics and Management

A major aspect of this paper has been to asses whether cross-country comparisons of transport firms can be made validly. In this respect the pioneering work in terms of European comparisons was done by the University of Leeds in the comparative study of selected European railways. The current airports work has shown that many problems are involved in such comparisons. The first is producing comparable financial and other data for a large number of European firms, in this case, airports. The second is trying to make valid comparisons between firms, which though in the same industry, frequently carry out quite different activities in addition to the basic ones of providing runways and terminals. Some attempt has been made to resolve difficulties that arising in these two major areas. Nevertheless, discrepancies do remain in the data for the airports studied. Do such discrepancies invalidate any conclusions? It is the author’s view that, despite any discrepancies, such conclusions may provide valuable pointers to possible economic relationships. It would be up to the individual airport authorities to then assess the validity of these pointers to their own situation.

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  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Print
  • Edition: Volume I and Volume II
  • Features: Tables;
  • Pagination: pp 1071-1083
  • Monograph Title: Research for Transport Policies in a Changing World: Proceedings of the World Conference on Transport Research

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01079437
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Oct 22 2007 10:14AM