Urban Transportation Economics - Couverture souple

Small

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3718651696 ISBN 13 : 9783718651696

Editeur : Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

A comprehensive review of the economics of urban transportation. This book presents mutually consistent models of demand, cost, pricing, investment criteria, and industrial organization; these can be combined to describe equilibria of the entire urban transportation system under various policies. Models are described with empirical content and international data are used to demonstrate how the models can be applied. The importance of highway transportation is reflected in the attention paid to models of congestion and highway investment. The author goes beyond standard congestion models by incorporating people's choice for timing their trips. This book is intended as an advanced textbook and reference volume for graduate students and researchers in transportation, urban economics, and related fields.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This timely new edition of Kenneth A. Small’s seminal textbook Urban Transportation Economics, co-authored with Erik T. Verhoef, has been fully updated, covering new areas such as parking policies, reliability of travel times, and the privatization of transportation services, as well as updated treatments of congestion modelling, environmental costs, and transit subsidies.

Rigorous in approach and making use of real-world data and econometric techniques, it contains case studies from a range of countries including congestion charging in Norway, Singapore and the UK, light rail in the Netherlands and freeway tolls in the US.

Small and Verhoef cover all basic topics needed for any application of economics to transportation:

• forecasting the demand for transportation services under alternative policies
• measuring all the costs including those incurred by users
• setting prices under practical constraints
• choosing and evaluating investments in basic facilities
• designing ways in which the private and public sectors interact to provide services.

This book will be of great interest to students with basic calculus and some knowledge of economic theory who are engaged with transportation economics, planning and, or engineering, travel demand analysis, and many related fields. It will also be essential reading for researchers in any aspect of urban transportation.

Biographie de l'auteur

Kenneth A. Small is Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California at Irvine.

Erik T. Verhoef is Professor of Spatial Economics at VU University, Amsterdam.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3718651696
• ISBN 13: 9783718651696
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 198
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible