VIDEO
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.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
BOOK
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
PAST EVENT
Monday, April 28, 2008
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
Opportunity 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
VIDEO
Robert W. Crandall and Martha Raddatz, April 16, 2008
Few 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.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert W. Crandall, February 28, 2007, Opportunity 08
Since 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Paul C. Light, April 24, 2005, The Washington Post
Opinion by Paul C. Light; The Washington Post (4/24/05) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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