At the end of 1989 a new ticket issuing and collection system, including automatic gates at 63 busy central stations, was brought into full operation on the London Underground. One of the system's principal objectives, a reduction in fare evasion, appears to have been achieved. The results of before-and-after surveys undertaken by the management of the Underground suggest that fare evasion has ...

Experience-based admission control (EBAC) is a hybrid approach combining the classical parameter-based and measurement-based admission control schemes. EBAC calculates an appropriate overbooking factor used to overbook link capacities with resource reservations in packet-based networks. This overbooking factor correlates with the average peak-to-mean rate ratio of all admitted traffic flows on ...

The sale of tickets, premium seating, and sponsorship is fundamental to the financial viability of professional sport organizations. With ticket sales as the most important source of local revenue for most sport organizations and the sale of premium suites and sponsorships unshared amongst other franchises (Smith & Roy, 2011; Howard & Crompton, 2004), recruiting, training, and retaining high qu...

The sports industry has seen a rapid adoption of dynamic pricing practices in recent years. However, there is still limited understanding on the effect of dynamic pricing on revenue in sport event settings and how to execute effective dynamic pricing strategies. In this paper, we address these issues by developing a comprehensive demand model for single-game ticket sales that can be used to pre...

There is a rich literature in economics on factors that govern airline prices. With approximately 50% of airline tickets sold online, there is now a renewed interest in investigating airline pricing particularly amongst Information Systems (IS) researchers. While market transparency created by online travel agents (OTAs) is a motivation enough to re-examine airline pricing, one missing piece ca...

This study aims to identify the antecedents of eWOM in context online airline ticket purchase intention by Malaysian consumers. Additionally, this also seeks examine relationship between and intention. The research model was examined employing survey questionnaire method obtained from 530 consumers through mall-intercept data analyzed using PLS. findings revealed that information usefulness, so...

The decline of ticket prices to reasonable levels, the increase airports and change in perception geographical distance have also increased interest airline passenger transportation sector. Therefore, it’s important determine attitudes behaviors passengers as consumers for all segments In this study, effect social media on consumer behavior air transportation, whose role has been shown by diffe...

This paper discusses the limitations of current on-line auction systems and presents our guidelines for more dynamic attribute-based bidding. Our prototype application for airline flight bidding demonstrates our vision for interfaces that facilitate negotiation between buyers and sellers. INTRODUCTION Despite the growth in the number of on-line auction sites, there is still a need for a more dy...