INEFFICIENCIES AND SCALE ECONOMIES OF EUROPEAN AIRPORT OPERATIONS

This study considers the efficiencies of European airports and estimates production frontiers for these airports using both stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis. It is argued that European airports, on average, are inefficient and that airline inefficiency contributes significantly to airport inefficiency in terms of air passenger movements. The authors find that the average European airport operates under constant returns to scale in producing air transport movements and under increasing returns to scale in producing passenger movements. These operating characteristics are statistically tested in a stochastic frontier model. Using data envelopment analysis, in which the number of runways is used as a fixed factor, technical and scale efficiency coefficients have been assessed. Airports in any certain country or region do not appear to be more or less efficient than the average.

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Elsevier

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Authors:
- Pels, E
- Nijkamp, P
- Rietveld, P
Publication Date: 2003-9

Language

English

Media Info

Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
Pagination: p. 341-361
Serial:
- Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
- Volume: 39
- Issue Number: 5
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 1366-5545
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13665545

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Airport capacity; Airport traffic; Airports; Data analysis; Economic analysis; Economic efficiency; Economies of scale; Regional analysis
Uncontrolled Terms: Stochastic frontier analysis
Geographic Terms: Europe
Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 00961886
Record Type: Publication
Files: TRIS
Created Date: Aug 31 2003 12:00AM