European Air Transport Public Service Obligations: A Periodic Review

Periodic Timetable Optimization in Public Transport

To my family—in particular to Annika and to our three children. .. Preface Well, " is this really a math book " ? This is the question the reader might have in mind until Proposition 4.2 on Page 31. Indeed, the first chapters—as well as the very last one—address a very general readership, including scientists and practitioners in traffic engineering and economics. This is because to me, periodi...

Towards an Efficient European Air Transport System November 2002 Association of European Airlines Towards an Efficient European Air Transport System A study for the Association of European Airlines

European Ways to Organise Public Transport

The European public transport scene was revolutionised by the British deregulation of 1986 but the more cautious bus reform by route tendering introduced in London in 1984 appeared to be a more convincing example for many countries. Copenhagen, e.g., introduced a similar regime and route-by-route competitive tendering has now become the norm in almost the whole of both Denmark and Sweden and ca...

Contractual Design and Functions – Evidence from Service Contracts in the European Air Transport Industry

Contracts within governance classes, e.g. alliances or supply chain contracts, display a great degree of variation in contractual design. Different propositions have been advanced on the influence of repeated interactions on contractual complexity. In this paper, we explore the alignment between provisions in functional classes and the underlying transaction attributes. The transaction cost imp...

Competitively neutral universal service obligations

Universal service obligations impose specific costs on the universal service provider and the latter may call for an appropriate compensation. Most often, a two-step procedure is put forward to finance the universal service in a competitive environment. Firstly, the cost of the universal service is assessed; secondly, the provider must be compensated for this cost. We argue that this procedure ...