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Consumer Attitudes Toward Aviation Risks

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Golaszewski, Richard. "The Level of Risk in Air Transportation Versus Public Perceptions of Safety," presented at ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, October, 1989, New York, NY.

Grose, Vernon L. "Your Next Airline Flight: Worth the Risk?" Risk Management 42(4): 47-56, 1995.

Keeney, Ralph L. "Understanding Life-Threatening Risks," Risk Analysis 15(6): 627-637, 1995.

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Results of Search in Dialog File 468: Public Opinion, on topic "Risk in Aviation." October 1996.

Safety Measurement and Safety Performance

Air Transport Association. "Safety Record of U.S. Part 121 Airlines, Scheduled Service, ATA Airlines Safety Record 1938-1994", February 1996.

Barnett, Arnold. "How Numbers Can Trick You," Technology Review, October 1994, p. 38-45.

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Barnett, Arnold and Mary K. Higgins. "Airline Safety: The Last Decade," Management Science 35(1): 1-21, 1989.

Bingaman, Anne K. "Consolidation and Code Sharing: Antitrust Enforcement in the Airline Industry," Address Before the American Bar Association Forum on Air and Space Law, Washington, DC, January 25, 1996.

Bowen, Brent D. and Dean E. Headley. The Airline Quality Rating 1996. Wichita, KS: National Institute for Aviation Research, April 1996.

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Federal Aviation Administration. FAA 90 Day Safety Review. September 16, 1996(a)

Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Safety Services. Aviation System Indicators. 1995 Annual Report. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1996(b)

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Federal Aviation Administration. Assistant Administrator for Aviation Safety. A Study of the Relationships Between Near Midair Collisions (NMAC'S), Midair Collisions (MAC'S), and Some Potential Causal Factors. Washington, DC, October 1990.

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General Accounting Office. Aviation Safety - Data Problems Threaten FAA Strides on Safety Analysis System. Washington, DC, February 1995. (GAO/AIMD-95-27)

_____. Aviation Safety - Measuring How Safely Individual Airlines Operate. Washington, DC, March 1988. (GAO/RCED-88-61.)

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Hinson, David, Administrator, FAA. Remarks before the National Press Club, Washington, DC, October 16, 1996.

Miller, Cyndee. "Airline Safety Seen as New Marketing Issue," Marketing News 25(14): 1, 11, July 8, 1991.

National Transportation Safety Board. "Notice of proposed statistical reporting changes and request for comment," Federal Register 61(235):64540-64541,December 5, 1996.

Oster, Clinton V., Jr. and John S. Strong. "The Worldwide Aviation Safety Record," Logistics and Transportation Review 28(1): 23-48, 1992.

Oster, Clinton V., Jr., John S. Strong and C. Kurt Zorn. Why Airplanes Crash; Aviation Safety in a Changing World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Ott, James. "Military Avoids U.S. Carriers That Fail Safety Standards," Aviation Week and Space Technology, February 8, 1988, p. 98-99.

Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Plane Safe; Inquiry into Aviation Safety: The Commuter and General Aviation Sectors. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1995.

Perrow, Charles. Normal Accidents; Living With High-Risk Technologies. New York: Basic Books, 1984.

Rees, Joseph V. Hostages of Each Other; the Transformation of Nuclear Safety Since Three Mile Island. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Rose, Nancy L. "Fear of Flying? Economic Analyses of Airline Safety," Journal of Economic Perspectives 6(3): 75-94, 1992.

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Stouffer, Virginia. "Commercial Aviation Safety and Risk," in Public-Sector Aviation Issues-- Graduate Research Award Papers 1990-1991. Transportation Research Record 1332. Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board, 1992, p. 40-47.

Transportation Research Board. Shopping for Safety; Providing Consumer Automotive Safety Information. Special Report 248. Washington, DC, 1996.

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Villarreal, Carmen Teresa. "Uses and Misuses of Risk Metrics in Air Transportation," in Public-Sector Aviation Issues--1986-1987

Graduate Research Award Papers. Transportation Research Record 1161. Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board, 1988, p. 31-42.

Weener, Earl F. and Peter B. Wheeler. "Key Elements of Accident Avoidance," Logistics and Transportation Review 28(1): 49-60, 1992.

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