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Save to My PortfolioAir Travel Congestion in the United States

Robert Puentes, October 07, 2009

While air travel has made the globe and the nation more accessible, simply flying from one state to the next is often fraught with delayed flights, runway congestion and a host of other problems. Robert Puentes, an author of a new report on air travel trends, says that their report findings can help policymakers address critical issues affecting the nation’s transportation infrastructure.

Airline Industry, Transportation, U.S. Department of Transportation, Traffic, Environment

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioAir Support: Creating a Safer and More Reliable Air Traffic Control System

Dorothy Robyn, July 25, 2008, Hamilton Project Discussion Paper

Our nation’s air traffic control system, run by the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), has not kept up with the explosive growth in air travel.  In as discussion paper for the Hamilton Project, Dorothy Robyn proposes to measures to increase air traffic effeciency and safety. Read More

Airline Industry, Infrastructure, Transportation, Technology

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Save to My PortfolioAviation Infrastructure Performance: A Study in Comparative Political Economy

Clifford Winston and Gines de Rus, May 01, 2008

International transportation experts compare and contrast how different nations have managed their airports and air traffic control systems and how well they are meeting the needs of their people. Read More

Business, Airline Industry, Transportation, Regulation

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioDelayed! U.S. Aviation Infrastructure Policy at a Crossroads

Steven A. Morrison and Clifford Winston, May 01, 2008, The Brookings Institution

In this chapter excerpted from their new book, Aviation Infrastructure Performance (Brookings 2008), Steven Morrison and Clifford Winston argue that privatized airports and air traffic control would have the potential to improve service to travelers and reduce the cost of carrier operations while maintaining the nation’s outstanding record of air travel safety in the face of an ever greater volume of traffic. In addition, privatized airports could facilitate greater competition among airlines that would lead to lower fares. Read More

Airline Industry, Infrastructure, Transportation

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Save to My PortfolioTransportation and the Economy

Monday, April 28, 2008
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC

Ralph AlswangOpportunity 08 hosted U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters for a discussion of America's transportation infrastructure. Secretary Peters focused on the challenges facing the nation’s transportation network, and how local, state and national leaders can take advantage of new technology and approaches to unleash a new wave of transportation investments in this country. Read More

Transportation, Infrastructure, Airline Industry, Traffic, Highways

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe State of Airline Competition and Prospective Mergers

Clifford Winston and Steven A. Morrison, April 24, 2008, House Judiciary Committee Antitrust Task Force

This fall the United States will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 and, Clifford Winston and Steven Morrison argue, the nation has reason to celebrate because airline deregulation has benefited both travelers and carriers. Read More

Airline Industry, Infrastructure, Transportation, Regulation, U.S. Economy

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioAirlines are Safer than Ever

Clifford Winston and Robert W. Crandall, April 19, 2008, The Wall Street Journal

Flights on U.S. airlines have never been more crowded, but despite recent reports, Clifford Winston and Robert Crandall argue, U.S. airlines have never been safer. Read More

Airline Industry, Infrastructure, Transportation, Regulation, U.S. Economy

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Save to My PortfolioExtending Deregulation

Robert W. Crandall and Martha Raddatz, April 16, 2008

Extending DeregulationFew industries remain subject to classic economic regulation in the United States. Senior Fellow Robert Crandall says the next president should help remove some of the controls left on these industries in order to help promote economic expansion.

Airline Industry, Transportation, Broadband Policy, Regulation, U.S. Economy

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Effect of FAA Expenditures on Air Travel Delays

Clifford Winston and Steven A. Morrison, March 31, 2008, Journal of Urban Economics

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) seeks to prevent the nation’s aviation system from becoming congested. To reduce delays, the FAA makes investments in air traffic control. Clifford Winston and Steven A. Morrison assess the efficacy of these investments by developing an empirical model of delays that is motivated by air traffic control operations. Read More

Transportation, Airline Industry, Traffic

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioAnother Look at Airport Congestion Pricing

Clifford Winston and Steven A. Morrison, December 31, 2007, American Economic Review

In this paper, Steven A. Morrison and Clifford Winston develop a model of the net benefits to air travelers from flights to and from US airports and calibrate it with data that account for a large share of the nation’s passenger air travel in 2005. Read More

Transportation, Airline Industry, Traffic

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioExtending Deregulation: Make the U.S. Economy More Efficient

Robert W. Crandall, February 28, 2007, Opportunity 08

Extending Deregulation: Make the U.S. Economy More EfficientSince the 1970s, deregulation has succeeded in increasing overall economic welfare and sharply reducing prices, generally by about 30 percent, for transportation—including air travel, rail transportation, and trucking—and for natural gas and telecommunications. Few industries remain subject to classic economic regulation in the United States. Read More

Airline Industry, Transportation, Broadband Policy, U.S. Economy, Regulation

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioUnfriendly Skies

Clifford Winston and Robert W. Crandall, December 18, 2006, The Wall Street Journal

Robert Crandall and Clifford Winston argue that policy-makers take the wrong approach in opposing recent merger attempts in the airline industry. While enforcement of antitrust laws can improve consumer welfare in some cases, Crandall and Winston conclude that government efforts to prevent such mergers "do little to improve consumer welfare and sometimes actually reduce it." Read More

Airline Industry, Regulation, Transportation, Corporations, Business

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioWhat's Wrong with the Airline Industry? Diagnosis and Possible Cures

Clifford Winston and Steven A. Morrison, September 28, 2005, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Steven Morrison and Clifford Winston testify before a House committee that the airline industry's financial problems are broadly associated with the industry’s long-term adjustment to airline deregulation. They propose ways that policy-makers can allow the industry to be more efficient and benefit the public. Read More

Airline Industry, Transportation, Business, Regulation

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioStill Searching For Airport Security: Wasn't TSA Going to Be the Solution?

Paul C. Light, April 24, 2005, The Washington Post

Opinion by Paul C. Light; The Washington Post (4/24/05) Read More

Homeland Security, Airline Industry, Governance, Bureaucracy, Executive Branch

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioGetting Airport Security Right

Paul C. Light, February 01, 2002, Government Executive

Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, January 2, 2002 Read More

Homeland Security, Airline Industry, Governance, Bureaucracy, Executive Branch

In Brief

Thirty years after passage of the Airline Deregulation Act, the U.S. airline industry is still adjusting to unregulated competition. Together with deregulation of the trucking and railroad industries, deregulation has reduced consumer costs by about $35 billion per year (in 1995 dollars), largely through improvements in efficiency. But a weakened economoy and high fuel prices, as well as recent mergers and safety issues, have prompted a new debate about America's airlines.

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Clifford Winston

Clifford Winston

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

Cliff Winston’s research focuses on microeconomic policy and government performance. He has written extensively on regulation and transportation.
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