Transportation

The teaching cases in this section provide an overview of the issues involved in transportation policy and planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving the various analytic and managerial problems that are peculiar to this area.  

  • Teaching Case - Buenos Aires-Colonia Bridge (Sequel)

    Buenos Aires-Colonia Bridge (Sequel)

    $2.45

    Publication Date: August 01, 1998

    This case recounts the work of a special Argentina-Uruguay bi-national commission convened to examine the economics of a proposed bridge that would link the two countries. The bridge being...

  • Teaching Case - Office of the Rail Regulator (Abridged)

    Office of the Rail Regulator (Abridged)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: March 09, 1998

    This case describes the first four years of John Swift's tenure as Britain's Rail Regulator and the issues he faced in the fall of 1997. The post of Rail Regulator had been created by the...

  • Teaching Case - Bangkok's Second Stage Expressway

    Bangkok's Second Stage Expressway

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    This transport privatization case describes the political complications that can accompany a privately-funded infrastructure project. The case tells the story of a Japanese construction firm...

  • Teaching Case - Buenos Aires-Colonia Bridge: The Project

    Buenos Aires-Colonia Bridge: The Project

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    This case recounts the work of a special Argentina-Uruguay bi-national commission convened to examine the economics of a proposed bridge that would link the two countries. The bridge being...

  • Teaching Case - Sri Lanka Transport: The Bus Industry (A)

    Sri Lanka Transport: The Bus Industry (A)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    In 1996, Sri Lanka had a mixed public and private bus system, with about one-third of passengers carried by public companies and two-thirds by private. The private buses were not earning...

  • Teaching Case - Gainesville Regional Utilities

    Gainesville Regional Utilities

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1995

    In 1993 the municipally owned utility serving Gainesville, Florida was threatening to build a 23-mile rail spur to connect its coal-fired power plant with the tracks of the Norfolk/Southern...

  • Teaching Case - Reforming the Rabat Bus System (B)

    Reforming the Rabat Bus System (B)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1991

    This two-part case is based in the situation of La Regie, the public transit system in Morocco's capital city. The case is told from the point of view of an advisor to the country's Ministry...

  • Teaching Case - Reforming the Rabat Bus System (A)

    Reforming the Rabat Bus System (A)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1991

    This two-part case is based in the situation of La Regie, the public transit system in Morocco's capital city. The case is told from the point of view of an advisor to the country's Ministry...