Major transport infrastructures are increasingly in the news as both the engineering and financing possibilities come together. However, these projects have also demonstrated the inadequacy of most existing approaches to forecasting their impacts and their overall evaluation. This collection of papers from a conference organised by the Applied Econometric Association represents a state of the art look at issues of forecasting traffic, developing pricing strategies and estimating the impacts in a set of papers by leading authorities from Europe, North America and Japan.
EMILE QUINET is Head of the Economics and Social Science Department at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, and a Member of the Conseil Général des Ponts et Chaussées. His books include
Infrastructures des Transports,
Analyse economique des transports and
Infrastructure de transport at croissance.
ROGER VICKERMAN is Professor of Regional and Transport Economics, Director of the Centre for European, Regional and Transport Economics, University of Kent at Canterbury. His books include
Spatial Economic Behaviour,
Urban Economies: Analysis and Policy,
Infrastructure and Regional Development and
The Single European Market.