Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractPlans for the development of high speed railways lines (HSR) in Spain are widespread. At the beginning of 2010 four HSR lines were operating in routes where the air transport mode used to be dominant. In this paper we examine through econometric means the air carriers' reaction to these HSR entrances by using data at the route level. We test whether the HSR have changed both, the airlines' frequencies and the market shares. Our results show that it has reduced on average the number of air transport operations by 17 percent. On the other hand the demand has increased substantially, though the weight of air transport in the total market has been reduced, as it has been reduced the weight of the dominant Spanish air carrier Iberia on air markets.

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For a World Bank Institute course on transport majority divestiture; management contracts; and BOT privatization, Betancor and Rendeiro (of the University (build-operate-transfer) schemes and variants, including of Las Palmas, Spain) cover basic issues associated with BOOT (build-own-operate-transfer) schemes and LDO the regulatioln of privatized airport infrastructure and (lease-develop-operate) schemes. services: Or it may involve private ownership and operation. * Eco1zomic characteristics of airports. Three types of * Price regulation. Topics covered include traditional activities are carried out in airports: essential operational pricing policies; price regulation through an RPI-X services (aeronautical and non-aeronautical), handling formula; charges for congestion, noise, and other services (aeronautical and non-aeronautical), and externalities; investment plans; and design of the commercial activities. regulatory system. Demand for basic airport services is directly influenced by trip purpose. The two types of airline customers * Regulation of quality in the industry. Topics covered: (business and leisure travelers) need different levels of regulation of services to passengers (as measured by flexibility and tend to travel at different times. Analyzing targets for check-in queues, immigration queues, baggage airport capacity (practical and saturation) under peak reclaim queues, concourse crowding, shopping, parking, demand is essential to airport success. and so on); fault repair times; average levels of passenger Among other important issues: Runway costs, level boarding and disembarkation and baggage delivery; and volume of service, pollution, congestion, and air safety; and investment obligations. traffic control. Performance indicators in the industry. Topics Recent trends in the airport industry. The movement covered: strategic indicators and other financial toward privatization may involve public ownership and indicators (including revenues), as well as indicators of private operation, including joint ventures; partial or cost, productivity, and quality of service. 'See Doganis (1992).

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