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Incorporating negative externalities into productivity assessments of US airports

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal 01 Apr 2014 Italy Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, volume 62, pages 39-53 (issn: 0965-8564,

Authors: Davide Scotti; Gianmaria Martini; Martin Dresner; Chunyan Yu;

doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2014.02.008

Incorporating negative externalities into productivity assessments of US airports

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Abstract

This paper analyses the efficiency of 44 US airports for the period 2005–2009. In addition to the conventional outputs (i.e., passengers, flights and cargo), we consider three undesirable externalities of airport activities: delays, noise and local air pollution. We adopt a directional distance function approach and perform a second stage analysis to investigate potential determinants of efficiency. Our base case results with only the positive outputs show that the greater the average aircraft size serving an airport and the larger the dimensions of the airport, the higher the technical efficiency. However, our results are sensitive to the inclusion of the undesirable outputs. The implications are that the inclusion of these externalities into the calculation of efficiency may impact policy decisions.

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Italy

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Keywords

noise, airport technical efficiency, airport delays, Airport policy, directional distance function, Settore SECS-P/06 - Economia Applicata, pollution, Settore SECS-P/01 - Economia Politica, Airport policy; directional distance function; airport technical efficiency; noise; pollution; airport delays

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