HOW TO CONTACT ME

Mailing address:
Department of Economics
Northwestern University
2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA

My office is Room 330 in Arthur Andersen Hall

Telephone: 847-491-8241
Facsimile: 847-491-7001
e-mail: ipsavage@northwestern.edu

• Research on Transportation Safety
  • General papers on safety and safety theory
  • Railroad safety
  • Truck safety
  • Aviation deregulation and safety
  • Double-hulled oil tankers
  • Employee safety since deregulation
  • The effect of psychological perceptions on the willingness-to-pay to reduce risk

• Research on Urban Transportation
  • An economic history of mass transit
  • The Chicago Transit Authority Trilogy:
    • The Past: "Management objectives and the causes of mass transit deficits"
    • The Present: "Evaluating transit subsidies in Chicago"
    • The Future: "Can privatization solve all of Chicago's public transportation problems?" [13 pages, 77 kb PDF]
  • Transit deregulation and privatization
  • Transit costs

  Chicago Transit Financing

  A commentary published in the October 11, 2007 [2 pages, 65 kb PDF]

  Listen to a 3-minute MP3 commentary produced by Northwestern's NewsCenter

  Read an interview in Northwestern's North by Northwestern student on-line publication

• Other Papers
  • Economic Regulation of Transport: Principles and Experience
  • Tests for competition in the trucking industry
  • Deploying Regional Jets to Add New Spokes to a Hub
  • Departure Delays, the Pricing of Congestion, and Expansion Proposals at Chicago O'Hare Airport
  • How We Got Here A history of the first ten years of the (Chicago) Metropolitan Conference on Public Transportation Research, 1986-1995 [14 pages, 64 kb PDF]
  • Biography of Leon N. Moses