TRANSPORT ECONOMICS: A PERSONAL VIEW

The field of transportation attracts individuals from diverse backgrounds, seeking to make contributions to policy, planning, operations and strategy. Economists are one of the more visible subsets of players who bring a specific focus to the transportation problem. The key theme of this paper is economic efficiency and ways that transportation economics seek to achieve efficient outcomes in the presence of markets and institutions that, to varying degrees, distort the potential to fulfil this primary goal. Some of the recent contributions to the literature on institutional and market reform, travel choice and demand are also reviewed.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Institute for Transportation, Incorporated

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• Authors:
  • Hensher, D A
• Publication Date: 2000-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 65-106
• Serial:
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation
  • Volume: 34
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0197-6729
  • EISSN: 2042-3195
  • Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2042-3195
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Deregulation; Economic efficiency; Economics; Infrastructure; Market assessment; Mode choice; Travel demand
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00792493
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 26 2000 12:00AM