Don Pickrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 6369060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don Pickrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don |
| FAMILY NAME | Pickrell |
| SIGNATURE | PICKRELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Desire Named Streetcar Fantasy and Fact in Rail Transit Planning
The forecasts that led local officials in eight U.S. cities to advocate rail transit projects over competing, less capital-intensive options grossly overestimated rail transit ridership and underestimated rail construction costs and operating expenses. These mistakes cannot be explained by such obvious sources as errors in projecting the input variables of the ridership forecasting models, or changes in the design of projects. Although planners c…
Airline Deregulation
The recent disastrous financial performance of the airline industry is probably thought by many to indicate that deregulation is not workable. But simulations suggest that the current recession and the 1979 fuel price increase are primarily to blame. Deregulation has caused transitional losses for some segments of the industry; but the new freedoms accorded to the airlines probably have helped rather than hurt the profitability of the industry
Airline Deregulation
The recent disastrous financial performance of the airline industry is probably thought by many to indicate that deregulation is not workable. But simulations suggest that the current recession and the 1979 fuel price increase are primarily to blame. Deregulation has caused transitional losses for some segments of the industry; but the new freedoms accorded to the airlines probably have helped rather than hurt the profitability of the industry
Airline Deregulation
The recent disastrous financial performance of the airline industry is probably thought by many to indicate that deregulation is not workable. But simulations suggest that the current recession and the 1979 fuel price increase are primarily to blame. Deregulation has caused transitional losses for some segments of the industry; but the new freedoms accorded to the airlines probably have helped rather than hurt the profitability of the industry
A Desire Named Streetcar Fantasy and Fact in Rail Transit Planning
The forecasts that led local officials in eight U.S. cities to advocate rail transit projects over competing, less capital-intensive options grossly overestimated rail transit ridership and underestimated rail construction costs and operating expenses. These mistakes cannot be explained by such obvious sources as errors in projecting the input variables of the ridership forecasting models, or changes in the design of projects. Although planners c…
Business (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Transport and Economic Policies (2 works) · Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends (1 work) · Capital (architecture) (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Deregulation (1 work) · Engineering (1 work) · Finance (1 work) · Incentive (1 work)