Essays on the operations and management of transportation systems
department or school: Business, Sauder School of
department or school: Operations and Logistics (OPLOG), Division of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Xia, Wenyi
issued: 2020-06-01T16:48:22Z
issued: 2020
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This dissertation addresses three important issues in transportation and logistics, and provides insights for efficiently operating and managing transportation and logistics systems. The first essay (in Chapter 2) investigates the effects of airlines and high-speed rail (HSR) cooperation in a region with multiple airports. This essay is motivated by the rapid development of HSR, which has greatly promoted regional connectivity and air-rail intermodal transport. It shows under what conditions the air-rail cooperation is feasible, and how the air-rail cooperation can help relieve airport congestion. Specifically, when the HSR operator cares more about social welfare, or when the airlines are collusive, the airlines and HSR operator are more likely to cooperate. The air-rail cooperation helps to relieve airport congestion by diverting traffic to uncongested airports in the multiple-airport region. The second essay (in Chapter 3) investigates how seaports can better adapt to climate change by determining the optimal timing and scale of investments in protective measures and throughput capacity. This study is motivated by the alarming rate of global warming and the threats imposed to vulnerable transportation infrastructure. This essay takes into account the uncertainty about the probability and magnitude of climate-change-related disasters, the irreversibility of infrastructure investments, and information accumulation. This essay highlights the importance of considering the two types of investment (protection and capacity) together, because the seaport can adapt in different ways as future climate gets worse, such as investing more in protection, holding off capacity investment, or adjusting its fee. The third essay (in Chapter 4) proposes a new structural estimation approach which does not require individual choice data to estimate passengers’ mode choice of airport ground transportation. This approach is applied to Incheon International Airport. The estimation result…
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note: ESSAYS ON THE OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS by Wenyi Xia A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Business Administration) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) May 2020 © Wenyi Xia, 2020 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled: Essays on the operations and management of transportation systems submitted by Wenyi Xia in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration Examining Committee: Professor Anming Zhang, Operations and Logistics, Sauder School of Business, UBC Co-supervisor Professor Robin Lindsey, Operations and Logistics, Sauder School of Business, UBC Co-supervisor Professor Sanghoon Lee, Strategy and Business Economics, Sauder School of Business, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Professor Harish Krishnan, Operations and Logistics, Sauder School of Business, UBC University Examiner Professor Stephanie E. Chang, School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) and Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability (IRES), UBC University Examiner Additional Supervisory Committee Members: Professor David Gillen, Operations and Logistics, Sauder School of Business, UBC Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract This dissertation addresses three important issues in transportation and logistics, and provides insights for efficiently operating and managing transportation and logistics systems. The first essay (in Chapter 2) investigates the effects of airlines and high-speed rail (HSR) cooperation in a region with multiple airports. This essay is motivated by the rapid development of HSR, which has greatly promoted regional connectivity and air-rail intermodal transport. It shows under what conditions the air-rail cooperation is f…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2020-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0391083
language: eng
degree discipline: Business Administration - Transportation and Logistics
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74625