IAN SAVAGE
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
Department of Economics > Ian Savage > Home Page
Mailing address:
Department of Economics
Northwestern University
2211 Campus Drive
Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
My office is Room 3371 in the
Kellogg Global Hub Building
Telephone: 847-491-8241
Facsimile: 847-491-7001
e-mail: ipsavage@northwestern.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
- Resume
- Short Resume [1 page, 9 kb PDF]
- Vita [8 pages, 200 kb PDF]
RESEARCH
Research on Transportation Safety
"The Economics of Transportation Safety" Leon. N. Moses Distinguished Lecture on Transportation, Northwestern University Transportation Center, October 29, 2013
View Hard Copy of Presentation [126 slides, 1.45 Mb PDF]
Listen to the Freakonomics Radio Podcast on automobile safety in which I am interviewed.
- General papers on safety and safety theory
- Aviation safety
- Bicycle safety
- Maritime safety: double-hulled oil tankers
- Railroad safety
- Truck safety: empirical research
- Truck safety: theoretical research
- Employee safety
- The effect of psychological perceptions on the willingness-to-pay to reduce risk
- Ensuring Timely Pipeline Shutdowns in Emergencies: When to Install Rupture Mitigation Valves (TRB Report)
- Safely Transporting Hazardous Liquids and Gases in a Changing U.S. Energy Landscape (TRB Report)
Research on Urban Public Transportation
- An economic history of mass transit
- Deregulation and privatization
- Costs
- Optimal fares, frequencies and subsidies
- Management objectives and the causes of deficits
- The cross elasticity between gasoline prices and transit use
- Does the demand response to transit fare increases vary by income?
- Papers dealing specifically with the Chicago Transit Authority
Other Papers
- Tolling roads to improve reliability
- Microeconomic perspectives on U.S. transportation infrastructure
- Economic regulation of transport: principles and experience
- Tests for competition in the trucking industry
- Minimum quality standards and the price of high quality
- Pricing for congested airports
- Deployment of Regional Jets
- The value of not selling the middle seat on an airplane during a pandemic
- Biography of Leon N. Moses
- How We Got Here, the story of the first ten years (1986-1995) of the (Chicago) Metropolitan Conference on Public Transportation Research ("Transport Chicago")[17 pages, 638 kb PDF]
TEACHING
Economics 355 - Fall Quarter 2025
- Course Description
- View the 2024 Syllabus [7 pages, 222 kb PDF] (minor changes only for 2025 apart from changes in dates)
- Survey readings and articles on contemporary transportation issues will be available in Canvas.
TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS MINOR
An interdisciplinary program available to all Northwestern undergraduates from any undergraduate school.
Read more about the benefits of taking the Minor [2 page, 223 kb PDF].
Listen to a Daily Northwestern podcast that includes interviews with students.
Read more about the course requirements [8 page, 310 kb PDF]
See the scheduled offerings of each course in the coming year
Syllabus for the TRANS 310 seminar.
See a list of the previous papers written for the TRANS 310 Senior Seminar.
Notes on how to format the TRANS 310 paper.
Administered by Northwestern's renowned Transportation Center, one of the country's most prestigious academic and research centers dedicated to the study of transportation and logistics.
E-mail Program Director Professor Ian Savage to set up an appointment to discuss how you can become part of this great program.
© 2025 - Last Updated: 04/18/2025 - Disclaimer