Economics plays a vital role in understanding many key issues in aviation, including whether there is a need for regulation, different methods of regulating airport charges, potential mechanisms to allocate scarce capacity, the impact of competition and liberalization, and promoting the cost-effective provision of key services. NERA’s experts have extensive experience applying insights from economics to issues relating to airports, airlines, and air traffic control. We have played a leading role in airport privatizations and regulatory reform in several countries.
Aviation
As competition in the rail industry has increased in many countries, NERA has played a leading role in helping rail industry organizations address a wide range of rail industry issues including industry structure and reform; competition policy; regulation, pricing, cost, and revenue modeling; demand forecasting; and appraisal methodologies. We have a deep understanding of the rail industry and have significantly contributed to key developments such as industry restructuring, franchising and contracting, and the principles and practice of track access charging. Our experts have market-leading expertise in the analysis and forecasting of cost inflation and have advised on the cost benefit and economic impact analyses of numerous landmark rail infrastructure projects.
Rail
The provision of urban transport services raises many key economic challenges including the management of limited capacity, improving the affordability and accessibility of public transport, obtaining value from money from infrastructure investment projects, congestion and travel reliability, and environmental impacts. NERA has extensive experience addressing these issues and advising operators, government, and others in the areas of public transport organization and regulation and road transport policy and pricing.
Urban Transport
We have extensive experience providing cost benefit and economic impact analysis for numerous policies, projects, and programs. Examples include the social cost benefit analysis of different ways of making building more infection resilient post-COVID (see here), the analysis of how rapidly the demand for air travel might recover post-COVID (see here), and an analysis on the impact of different policies on the performance of a specific economic sector and the general economy.
Wider Infrastructure and Impact Analysis
NERA has strong capabilities within and across geographies to help businesses in the automotive industry confront multi-faceted regulatory, legal, and business reputational threats. NERA’s wide-ranging expertise uniquely positions us to provide internationally coordinated economic assistance for corporations facing complex and global matters. The breadth and depth of our expertise is highlighted by our white paper, “The Role of Economics on the Road to Autonomous Vehicles and Digital Mobility.”
Automotive
NERA’s Impact on Four Major Transport Sectors
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Wider Infrastructure and Impact Analysis
Wider Infrastructure and Impact Analysis
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