Transport economics /

"Transport Economics is a completely revised edition of a well-established textbook which applies economic analysis to transport issues. Each chapter has been carefully reworked and the book includes new material dealing with the regulation of transport markets. The theoretical content is suppo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Button, Kenneth John
Format: Book
Published: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2010
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Transport and economics
  • 2. Transport, transport markets and transport industries
  • 3. Movement, transport and location
  • 4. The demand for transport
  • 5. The direct costs of transport
  • 6. The external costs pf transport
  • 7. Pricing of transport services
  • 8. Containing the environmental costs of transport
  • 9. Optimizing trafficcongestion
  • 10. Some economics of transport logistics
  • 11. Investment criteria, private and public sector analysis
  • 12. Transport planning and forecasting
  • 13. Transport and development
  • 14. The economic regulation of transport.