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 - Privatizing the Albany County Airport (Epilogue)

    Privatizing the Albany County Airport (Epilogue)

    $2.45

    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 context, the county executive seriously examines...

  • Teaching Case - Privatizing the Albany County Airport

    Privatizing the Albany County Airport

    $3.95

    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 context, the county executive seriously examines...

  • Classic Case - Extending the Red Line to Arlington (B)

    Extending the Red Line to Arlington (B)

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    Federal financing of state and local public works and development projects has made possible a wide array of improvements that otherwise might not have been made in US metropolitan areas. Yet these projects have left a mixed legacy in some...

  • Classic Case - Extending the Red Line to Arlington (A)

    Extending the Red Line to Arlington (A)

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    Federal financing of state and local public works and development projects has made possible a wide array of improvements that otherwise might not have been made in US metropolitan areas. Yet these projects have left a mixed legacy in some...

  • Teaching Case - Department of Transportation and Airport Landing Slots

    Department of Transportation and Airport Landing Slots

    $3.95

    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 "landing slots" and have been assigned to airlines at the...

  • Classic Case - Registry of Motor Vehicles:  Watertown Branch

    Registry of Motor Vehicles: Watertown Branch

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1984

    As the agency responsible for licensing and certifying motor vehicles and their operators, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles serves over five million people a year -- 3.5 million on a person-to-person basis -- bringing the state in...