Samenvatting
Airline deregulation has very likely affected travel on the U.S. highways. Through its effects on the level and composition of ground travel, the deregulation of air travel may have reduce total travel deaths in the U.S. This is likely to be thecase because the fatality rate for travel by roads is marked higher than travel by air. This study presents an estimate of the number of lives saved from reduced ground travel attributable to airline deregulation.