Infrastructure

Privatizing the Albany County Airport: Abridged

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

An antiquated airport jeopardizes a region's economic health but the county of Albany, New York, operator of the airport, lacks funds to undertake much-needed capital improvements. In this...

Privatizing the Albany County Airport (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

An antiquated airport jeopardizes a region's economic health but the county of Albany, New York, operator of the airport, lacks funds to undertake much-needed capital improvements. In this...

Privatizing the Albany County Airport

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

An antiquated airport jeopardizes a region's economic health but the county of Albany, New York, operator of the airport, lacks funds to undertake much-needed capital improvements. In this...

The Alaska Railroad: 1984

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

For years, Alaskans have debated the pros and cons of taking over the Alaska Railroad from the federal government. With the passage of the Alaska Railroad Transfer Act of 1982, however, the...

Department of Transportation and Airport Landing Slots (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

The ability of commercial airlines to fly their planes means little without a space in which to land them. In some congested US airports, the times and spots for landing are known as...

Department of Transportation and Airport Landing Slots

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

The ability of commercial airlines to fly their planes means little without a space in which to land them. In some congested US airports, the times and spots for landing are known as...

President Cleveland and the Pullman Strike

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

On July 3, 1894, on orders from President Grover Cleveland, Secretary of War David S. Lamont ordered the commanding general of the Military Department to prepare the US army at Fort...

Financing Indonesia's Roads

Publication Date: January 1, 1986

In the fall of 1986, the World Bank offered the government of Indonesia a loan of approximately US $200-250 million for highway construction in the capital city of Jakarta and the country's...

Regulating Airport Noise

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

Government agencies have responded to complaints about airport noise in rather traditional ways, primarily by mandating noise standards for jet aircraft. This case describes the problem of...

Meeting NYC's Asphalt Needs (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In Part A of this case, Henry Fulton, the head of New York City's Bureau of Highway Operations proposes that, as a cost saving measure, the city build and operate its own asphalt plant to...

Meeting NYC'S Asphalt Needs (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In Part A of this case, Henry Fulton, the head of New York City's Bureau of Highway Operations proposes that, as a cost saving measure, the city build and operate its own asphalt plant to...

MBTA: Rail Equipment Budgeting (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1979

This series of cases on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, the mass transit agency serving the Boston metropolitan area, examines the management of an urban service delivery agency...