Transportation

The Brattle Group has experience in transport demand modeling and forecasting and have advised in all aspects related to theory, data analysis, estimation, and application. Our economic experts understand the dynamic fundamentals that drive travel patterns for nearly every transport mode over various geographic scales.

Effective pricing strategy is critical to the bottom line, especially in the transportation industry, where prices can vary by distance traveled, corridor time of day, day of the week, commodity, level of service, speed, reliability, and a host of other factors. We provide an array of sophisticated tools for analyzing the complex transportation marketplace and for crafting pricing strategies that support short- and long-term business objectives. We offer clients in-depth economic consulting skills and extensive hands-on experience in cost analysis, demand modeling, price elasticity measurement, market assessment, competitive analysis, and incentive price schedule design.

Through experience in dealing with problems of public policy, regulation and deregulation, market design, and market failure, we understand the strengths and weaknesses of public and private service provisions. Our economic consultants assist government and quasi-government entities through the transition to private ownership and operation. We design intermediate organizational forms combining public ownership and/or oversight with the efficiency and customer responsiveness of the private sector. We also devise regulatory structures that provide oversight of newly privatized entities operating in new markets.

The Brattle Group specializes in economic analysis of controversial and complex public policy issues. We develop white papers, reports, and expert testimony that inform and influence the policy debate by making the underlying economic issues clear and compelling to non-economists. These studies typically combine the use of sophisticated quantitative methods with qualitative analysis of institutions and the policy environment. We disseminate the results of our policy analysis through publications and appearances in public policy forums.

The Brattle Group’s internationally recognized economic experts advise governments and regulators on the structure and economics of reforms in transportation industries including airports, national airlines, railroads, and pipelines. We provide market development forecasts, planning tools, and policy frameworks to assist in the complex task of restructuring these markets. In addition, we offer expert economic and regulatory consulting to companies operating under existing regulatory regimes.