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Clinton Oster, Jr.

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(406) 295-5016
Email:
oster@indiana.edu or clint.oster@gmail.com
Research areas:
Environmental and Energy Policy
Policy Analysis
Public Finance and Economics
Areas of Interest:
Aviation safety, air traffic management, energy policy, airline economics and competition policy
Aviation infrastructure
Environmental and natural resource policy
Government regulation
Business-government relations

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 1978
  • M.S., Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1973
  • B.S.E., (with honors), Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 1969

Biography

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Dr. Clinton V. Oster Jr. is a nationally recognized expert in transportation policy, transportation safety, energy policy, environmental policy, and economic development. He has been with O'Neill since 1979, serving as associate dean as well as director of the Transportation Research Center during his tenure.

Oster's research on transportation has appeared in a wide variety of books and journals. He has co-authored five books on various aspects of air transportation including Managing the Skies: Public Policy, Organization, and Financing of Air Navigation and Why Airplanes Crash: Aviation Safety in a Changing World. His current research centers on air traffic management, aviation safety and security, airline economics and competition policy, unmanned aerial vehicles, and aviation infrastructure.

Oster has chaired five study committees for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, including the Committee on the Effects of Commuting on Pilot Fatigue and the Committee for the Study of Traffic Safety Lessons from Benchmark Nations. He has served as a member of ten other study committees including the Committee on the Technical Feasibility of Wheelchair Restraint Systems in Aircraft, the Committee for the Study of Intercity Passenger Travel Issues and Opportunities in Short-Haul Markets, Committee for the Study of Air Traffic Controller Staffing, the Committee for the Study of Intercity Passenger Travel Issues and Opportunities in Short-Haul Markets, the Panel on Assessment of Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis for Aviation Security, the Committee for the Guidance on Setting and Enforcing Speed Limits, and the Committee for the Study on Air Passenger Service and Safety Since Deregulation.

Oster has served as an expert witness for both the Environment and Natural Resource Division and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He has been a consultant on aviation and other transportation issues to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, NASA, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, state and local governments, and private sector companies in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Australia.

Oster has been a member of the National Aviation Advisory Group of the U.S. Government Accountability Office and of the Aviation Network on Aviation Research and Policy for the Dutch Ministry of Transport. He has served as safety inspector and accident investigator for the Indycar and Indy Lights racing series.



Highlights

  • Research Director, President's Aviation Safety Commission, 1987-1988
  • Review Editor, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC Special Report on Aviation and the Global Atmosphere
  • Graduate Teaching Award, Indiana University, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, 2011
  • President, Transportation Research Forum, 1995-1996
  • Expert Witness, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resource Division and Antitrust Division

In the News

  • "Fixing U.S. Air Traffic Dysfunction Seen in Example" - Bloomberg, December 14, 2012
  • "Study Finds 1 in 5 Pilots Commute 750 Miles or More for Work" - CBS News, July 7, 2011
  • "Pilot Commuting Needs More Study to Determine Safety Effects" - Centre for Aviation, July 11, 2011.
  • "Many Airlines Go Radio Silent on Pilot Fatigue: Study" - ABC News, July 6, 2011

Selected Works

  • “Biometric and eddy-covariance based estimates of ecosystem carbon storage in five eastern North American deciduous forests,” (with P.S. Curtis, P.J. Hanson, P. Bolstad, C. Barford,  H.P. Schmid, and K.B. Wilson), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 113: 3-19 (2002)
  • “An integrated GIS and modeling approach to assess the transient response of forests of the southern Great Lakes region to a doubled CO2 climate,” (with J.L. Ehman, W. Fan,  J. Southworth, and N.T. Welch), Forest Ecology and Management, 155: 237-255 (2002)
  • "Transportation (Chapter 5)," (with C. J. Burbank, M. Kuby, M. Meyer, J. Posey, E. J. Russo, A. Rypinski, and H. G. Schwartz), Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment (J. M. Melillo, T. Richmond, and G. W. Yohe Eds.). U.S. Global Change Research Program (2014)
  • "Analyzing aviation safety: Problems, challenges, and opportunities," (with J. S. Strong and C. K. Zorn), Research in Transportation Economics, 43(1): 148-164 (2013)
  • "Analyzing road safety in the United States," (with J. S. Strong), Research in Transportation Economics, 43: 98-111, (2013)
  • The Effects of Commuting on Pilot Fatigue, Committee on the Effects of Commuting on Pilot Fatigue, Board on Human-Systems Integration. Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. National Research Council. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press (2011)
  • Managing the Skies: Public Policy, Organization, and Financing of Air Navigation, (with J. S. Strong). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing (2008)
  • "An Assessment of Aviation Security Costs and Funding in the United States (Chapter 10)," (with J. S. Strong), Aviation Security Management, Volume III: Perspectives on Aviation Security Management (A. R. Thomas, Ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing (2008)
  • "The evolution of U.S. domestic airline route networks since 1990," (with J. S. Strong), Transportation Research Record: The Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1951: 52-59 (2006)
  • Why Airplanes Crash: Aviation Safety in a Changing World, (with J. S. Strong and C. K. Zorn). New York: Oxford University Press, (1992)

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