A Handbook of Transport Economics

Edited by André de Palma (), Charles Lindsey (), Emile Quinet and Roger Vickerman

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Abstract: Bringing together insights and perspectives from close to 70 of the world’s leading experts in the field, this timely Handbook provides an up-to-date guide to the most recent and state-of-the-art advances in transport economics. The comprehensive coverage includes topics such as the relationship between transport and the spatial economy, recent advances in travel demand analysis, the external costs of transport, investment appraisal, pricing, equity issues, competition and regulation, the role of public–private partnerships and the development of policy in local bus services, rail, air and maritime transport.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781847202031
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction

André de Palma, Charles Lindsey, Emile Quinet and Roger Vickerman

Ch 2 General Equilibrium Models for Transportation Economics

Johannes Bröcker and Jean Mercenier

Ch 3 Transport in Spatial Models of Economic Development

Michael Wegener

Ch 4 New Economic Geography: The Role of Transport Costs

Miren Lafourcade and Jacques-François Thisse

Ch 5 Transport Costs and International Trade

Alberto Behar and Anthony Venables

Ch 6 City Formation and Transport Costs

Takatoshi Tabuchi

Ch 7 Valuation of Travel Time Savings

David Hensher

Ch 8 Advances in Discrete Choice: Mixture Models

Joan L. Walker and Moshe Ben-Akiva

Ch 9 Dynamic Traffic Modeling

André de Palma and Mogens Fosgerau

Ch 10 Activity-based Travel Demand Analysis

Abdul Rawoof Pinjari and Chandra R. Bhat

Ch 11 Economics of Transport Logistics

Michel Beuthe

Ch 12 Cost Functions for Transport Firms

Leonardo J. Basso, Sergio Jara-Diaz and William G. Waters

Ch 13 Efficiency Measurement Theory and its Application to Airport Benchmarking

Tae Hoon Oum, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi and Yuichiro Yoshida

Ch 14 Theory of External Costs

Stef Proost

Ch 15 External Costs of Transport in the United States

Mark Delucchi and Don McCubbin

Ch 16 External Costs of Transport in Europe

Rainer Friedrich and Emile Quinet

Ch 17 The Value of a Statistical Life

Henrik Andersson and Nicolas Treich

Ch 18 Transport and Energy

Kenneth Button

Ch 19 The Full Marginal Costs of Highway Travel: Methods and Empirical Estimation for North America

Yossi Berechman, Bekir Bartin, Ozlem Yanmaz-Tuzel and Kaan Ozbay

Ch 20 Surplus Theory

Yoshitsugu Kanemoto

Ch 21 The Direct and Wider Impacts of Transport Projects: A Review

Peter Mackie, Daniel Graham and James Laird

Ch 22 Price Discrimination

Simon Anderson and Régis Renault

Ch 23 Road Congestion Pricing

Georgina Santos and Erik Verhoef

Ch 24 The Economics of Information in Transport

Piet Rietveld

Ch 25 Personal Intelligent Travel Assistants

Caspar Chorus and Harry J.P. Timmermans

Ch 26 Equity Dimensions of Transport Policy

Alain Trannoy

Ch 27 Psychology and Rationality in User Behavior: The Case of Scarcity

Jonathan L. Gifford

Ch 28 Competition, Regulation and Public Service Obligations

Marco Ponti

Ch 29 The Theory of Incentives Applied to the Transport Sector

Elisabetta Iossa and David Martimort

Ch 30 Public–Private Partnerships in Transport

Antonio Estache, Ellis Juan and Lourdes Trujillo

Ch 31 Parking Economics

Richard Arnott

Ch 32 The Industrial Organization of Competition in Local Bus Services

Philippe Gagnepain, Marc Ivaldi and Catherine Muller-Vibes

Ch 33 Competition and Regulation in Rail Transport

Chris Nash

Ch 34 Airport Governance and Regulation: Three Decades of Aviation System Reform

David Gillen

Ch 35 Competition and Regulation in Air Transport

Anming Zhang, Yimin Zhang and Joseph Clougherty

Ch 36 Competition and Regulation in Seaports

Hilde Meersman, Eddy Van de Voorde and Thierry Vanelslander

Ch 37 Competition and Regulation in Maritime Transport

Mary R. Brooks

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