A Boeing 314 Clipper flying over San Francisco, 1940. http://t.co/JlkdfbpsXC—
History Pics (@HistoryPixs) February 16, 2014
A Boeing 314 Clipper flying over San Francisco, 1940
06 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, transport economics Tags: San Francisco
Airlines are avoiding Yemen, Iraq, and Libya
04 Apr 2015 1 Comment
in transport economics, war and peace Tags: airline safety, Iraq, Libya, Yemen
Airline travel are avoiding Yemen, Iraq, and Libya h/t @ianbremmer http://t.co/dgiNDILqzp—
Charts and Maps (@ChartsAndMaps) April 04, 2015
Customer service was always a priority in Japan
01 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, transport economics Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, Japan, Tokyo
Japan Railway's app has live data, sure… including the crowdedness and inside temperature of EACH TRAIN CAR. 😍/😭 http://t.co/ySz1oTuIbF—
Cabel Sasser (@cabel) March 27, 2015
Air travel is still a lot safer than it used to be
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: air crashes
Though it's of little comfort to the families of crash victims, flying has gotten ever safer econ.st/1NaUbaI http://t.co/7aCJ567z6i—
The Economist (@EconEconomics) March 26, 2015
Should NZ stop issuing international licences for New Zealanders to drive overseas?
28 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, transport economics
A big issue in New Zealand at the moment is tourist drivers having often fatal car accidents. They usually from countries that drive on the other side of the road.
These tourists fly in from the northern hemisphere after a long trip and are suffering jetlag. The accidents often happen soon after they leave the airport or on mountainous road conditions where driver fatigue and jetlag would be a dangerous brew.
Drive on left side of road: blue
Drive on right side of road: reden.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_an… http://t.co/JeZM2vjhWV—
Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) March 27, 2015
The above map is a convenient summary of where New Zealanders would be pretty much the same risk. Long plane trips driving on the wrong side of the road while suffering from jetlag.
There are repeated calls in New Zealand to ban tourist drivers or require them to take some sort of test before being issued with a driving permit. A test would be pretty useless as the main problem is jetlag.
Perhaps New Zealand should lead the way and stop issuing international licences where the New Zealander would drive on the wrong side of the road.
Such a proposal has no chance of ever been adopted because New Zealanders don’t want to give up the right to drive a car when travelling abroad in the northern hemisphere.
That is the brutal calculus. New Zealanders tolerate road accidents in New Zealand as the price of been able to drive on the roads of other countries, often causing more road accidents than the average over there because of jetlag.
Teen drivers distracted big time by cellphones, talking in most crashes – LA Times
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: cell phones
There are a lot fewer accidents than there used to be
25 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: road accidents, road safety
It is not smart to subsidise electric cars
23 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, transport economics Tags: carbon credits, carbon trading, electic cars
The carbon footprint of the round the world solar flight should include its support planes
18 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, technological progress, transport economics Tags: carbon footprint, climate alarmism, expressive voting, global warming, solar flight, solar power
Airline crash fatalities since 1947
15 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, transport economics
Via The String of ‘Safest Airline Years’ Is Over – NYTimes.com
Winston’s big port up North won’t have any business
10 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, rentseeking, transport economics
In the first shot in the pork-barrelling for a by-election, veteran New Zealand populist Winston Peters wants to stop the expansion of the Port of Auckland and move the extra shipping traffic up north to the Port of Whangarei:
And we will upgrade the Auckland to Northland railway line and build the rail link to your port
The Port of Whangarei is about two hours north by car from Auckland. Auckland is a global city of approaching 2 million. Whangarei is the only city up North, with a population of 50,000.
45% of the import traffic to the Port of Auckland is cars. Around 90% of light vehicle imports in New Zealand come through the Port of Auckland. The rest may go through Littleton.
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Jellicoe and Freyberg wharves are located between the two container terminals. |
Bledisloe multipurpose Wharf |
Striving to move some of this light vehicle imports from the Port of Auckland up north to the Port of Whangarei where they be unloaded from a ship onto trains for a short train ride to Auckland, unloaded again onto trucks all seems unnecessary expense.
Photo: Port of Whangarei.
Auckland appears to have spare container capacity up until at least 2035, so this port up North will simply not have much to do in terms of extra container traffic because it will have to compete on the basis of cost and proximity to markets.
Photo: The Marsden Point Oil Refinery on the opposite shore of Whangarei Harbour.
The traffic that is coming under pressure regarding capacity of the Port of Auckland is multi-cargo traffic such as building materials, vegetables, wheat, vehicles and other goods. The situation is further aggravated by the rapid increase in the number and increased size of cruise ships.
As a good part of the market for the multi cargo traffic is in Auckland, landing them away from their main market just makes no sense and will not happen unless the port of Auckland is prohibited by law from expanding and ships are not allowed to divert to ports such as Wellington and Christchurch.
The number of cruise ships visiting Auckland in the last 10 years to about 90 and is expected to reach one 20 by 2020 and 150 by 2030. That traffic cannot be diverted up north to the Port of Whangarei.
Any export traffic that would be viable to send through the Port of Whangarei up north will already be going through it. Export competitiveness is highly sensitive to costs as exporters must simply take the going price in the international market.
What’s the point of buying a driverless Mercedes if you can’t be seen inside it (and driving it)!?
09 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
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