London’s Double-decker buses were not a tipping hazard, 1933

10 May 2017 Leave a comment

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.@TheEconomist thinks US domestic airlines are a successful oligopoly!?

05 May 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, industrial organisation, transport economics Tags: , , , , ,

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ON THE PERSISTENT FINANCIAL LOSSES OF U.S. AIRLINES: A PRELIMINARY EXPLORATION Severin Borenstein Working Paper 16744 January 2011.

Some people actually use public transport in Wellington

04 May 2017 Leave a comment

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A few people in Auckland take the train or bus to work

04 May 2017 Leave a comment

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Killer green technologies alert: downed trolley bus wires

29 Apr 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, transport economics Tags: , , , , ,

A car would not swerved towards us and we would not have driven under downed trolley bus wires if it were not for this green fetish. The swerving car distracted me from noticing that the trolley bus wires were hanging low above it on a dull Wellington Day

This enormously expensive way of running public transport in Wellington is already killed bus drivers when they are out on the road putting in the polls back up to the wires. Today, we were put at risk of electrocution.

Here Comes Supersonic Flight: The Rebirth of a Former White Elephant

14 Apr 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, industrial organisation, politics - USA, rentseeking, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: ,

Why Airlines Sell More Seats Than They Have

12 Apr 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, transport economics

Why can’t we see the Apollo lunar landers on the Moon from Earth ?

28 Feb 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics, transport economics Tags: ,

Big Plane vs Little Plane (The Economics of Long-Haul Flights)

25 Feb 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics, transport economics Tags:

Why Aren’t There Many Female Commercial Pilots?

24 Feb 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, transport economics Tags:

World’s longest flights

18 Feb 2017 Leave a comment

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Why People On Planes Say “Mayday” in an Emergency?

15 Feb 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in transport economics Tags:

Why Boeing 747 have a hump in the front

11 Feb 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, transport economics

Rail not better on overruns @JulieAnneGenter @JordNZ

30 Jan 2017 Leave a comment

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Will the trolley problem kill self-drive cars?

26 Jan 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in law and economics, transport economics

Self-drive cars currently have a driver behind the wheel who has an impeccable license record and a high tolerance of boredom. The police will speak to him if there is an accident.

Whoever writes the software for self-drive cars that do not have a driver watching over things and being personally liable will be sued for every accident that occurs for the rest of eternity that comes off his coding. Ultimately, there will be accidents where the litigation will be against the writer of the software code. That can never be avoided.

There is criminal liability for the self-drive car software writer which can neither be contracted out of or insured against.

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