Clinton V. Oster Jr.Professor and Associate Dean for Bloomington Programs
School of Public Environmental Affairs
Indiana University, Bloomington
PHONE:(812) 855-0563
E-MAIL: oster@indiana.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University, 1978
Biographical Overview
Professor Oster's current research centers on aviation safety, airline economics and competition policy, international aviation, aviation infrastructure, and environmental and natural resource policy. His most recent book is American Public Policy Problems: An Introductory Guide, co-authored with Charles F. Bonser and Eugene B. McGregor and published by Prentice Hall in 2000. He has also co-authored four books on aviation safety and various aspects of the U.S. airline industry's adaptation to de-regulation: Why Airplanes Crash: Aviation Safety in a Changing World, published by Oxford University Press in 1992, Deregulation and the Future of Intercity Passenger Travel, published by MIT Press in 1987, Deregulation and the New Airline Entrepreneurs published by MIT Press in 1984, and Airline Deregulation: The Early Experience published by Auburn House in 1981. His research on transportation has appeared in such journals as: Transportation Journal, Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Logistics and Transportation Review, Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Transportation Quarterly, Transportation Research, Transportation Research Record, International Journal of Transport Economics, Growth and Change, and Policy Studies Journal.
Professor Oster has served on nine special study committees for the National Academy of Science and has chaired two of those committees. He currently serves on the Panel on Assessment of Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis for Aviation Security of the Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems of the National Research Council. He also served on the Office of Technology Assessment's Advisory Panel on Federal Aviation Research and Technology. He is active in the Transportation Research Forum, serving as President in 1995-96 and currently serving as a member of the National Council. Professor Oster served as Research Director for the Aviation Safety Commission in 1987-88 and is former Associate Dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and former Director of Indiana University's Transportation Research Center. He has served as an expert witness for both the Environment 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 U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Australia. He is also an accident investigator for the Indy Racing League. Professor Oster received a B.S.E. from Princeton University, an M.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Recent Publications
Charles F. Bonser, Eugene B. McGregor, and Clinton V. Oster, Jr., American Public Policy Problems: An Introductory Guide (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000).
Clinton V. Oster, Jr. and John S. Strong, "Transport Restructuring and Reform in an International Context," Transportation Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3 , Spring 2000.
Pathological Gambling: A Critical Review, Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of Pathological Gambling, National Research Council (Washington, D.C: National Academy Press, 1999)
The Practicality of Pulsed Fast Neutron Transmission Spectroscopy for Aviation Security, Special Report NMAB-482-6, National Materials Advisory Board, National Research Council (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999).
Managing Speed: Review of Current Practice for Setting and Enforcing Speed Limits, Special Report 254, Committee for Guidance on Setting and Enforcing Speed Limits, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1998).
