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Taxi And Limousines: The Last Bastion Of Economic Regulation, Robert M. Hardaway

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

The study herein is divided into the following sections: Part II reviews the history of regulation and deregulation of the transportation industry in the United States and focuses on common denominators which the limousine industry shares with other sectors of the transportation industry, such as airlines, trucking, railroads, and taxicabs; Part II analyzes the history of economic regulation on the limousine industry and evaluates its competitive characteristics; Part IV collects the available data about the limousine industry and creates an economic model which can be used to plot the effects of regulation; Part V analyzes the various rationales which have …