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Transport Systems and Policy. Selected Essays of Peter Nijkamp

This book describes how transport and mobility are critical for the economic development of cities and regions. They are considered to be a key factor in achieving sustained economic growth. The book brings together the author’s influential work in the areas of transport systems and transport policy. The first part of the book offers new theoretical insights and a review of the state-of-the-art in transportation science. The essays address issues such as the costs and benefits of transport, the role of price in transport demand, the impact of information and the potential of congestion pricing. The second part of the book focuses attention on the modeling of transport systems. The third part comprises papers on transport infrastructure and includes studies on the impact of infrastructure and superstructure on economic growth, the costs of infrastructure construction, the evaluation of airport expansion and airport efficiency. The final part of the book considers issues of public policy, including governance principles for sustainable urban transport, welfare implications of information policy, the economic consequences of airline deregulation, and the use of policy scenarios for the far future and the transferability of transport policy to other areas. Specific essays include topics on the Full Benefits and Costs of Transportation Review and Prospects; Globalization, Transport and the Environment: New Perspectives for Ecological Economics; A Meta-analysis of Price Elasticity’s of Transport Demand in a General Equilibrium Framework; Information in Road Networks with Multiple Origin-Destination Pairs; Second-Best Congestion Pricing: The Case of an Untolled Alternative; Spatial Equilibrium Models: A Survey with Special Emphasis on Transportation; Information Effects in Transport with Stochastic Capacity and Uncertainty Costs; Commuting: In Search of Jobs and Residences; Alonso’s Theory of Movements: Developments in Spatial Interaction Modeling; How do Carriers Price Connecting Flights? Evidence fro Intercontinental Flights from Europe; Infrastructure and Suprastructure in Regional in Regional Competition; How Reliable are Estimates of Infrastructure Costs? A Comparative Analysis; A Multicriteria Decision Support Methodology for Evaluating Airport Expansion Plans; Relative Efficiency of European Airports; New Governance for Sustainable Urban Transport; Information Policy in Road Transport with Elastic Demand: Some Welfare Economic Considerations; European Airline Reform; An Empirical Welfare Analysis; Energy Scenarios for European Passenger Transport in the Year 2030; and The Realities of Using “Benefit Transfers” in Transport Decision Making. The collection is considered essential reading for scholars and students interested in all aspects of transport research and policy.

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Print
  • Edition: 2nd
  • Features: Figures; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 437p

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01041580
  • Record Type: Publication
  • ISBN: 1843762668
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Jan 30 2007 1:31PM