The Economics of Urban Transportation
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415285151 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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This text should appear on the shelf of everyone practising transportation economics, and is likely to become the standard in the field - David Levinson, University of Minnesota
Pedro V. Camargo said The book is good, but the class is better!!. This good is very complex for somebody that, like me, doesn't have a economics background. The math is quite simple (I'm an engineer, so my math is very good), but you need a lot of concepts and definitions from economics that you only get in regular courses of microeconomics and . Comprehensive and updated, a must have for the serious practitioners This is a college textbook any serious transportation planner, economist and engineer must have in its library. Comprehensive and up to date. As an example, the chapter on pricing includes not only the Singapore case, but also the latest implementations of congestion pricing, incl
Verhoef is Professor of Spatial Economics at VU University, Amsterdam. . Small is Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California at Irvine. Kenneth A. Erik T
Verhoef, has been fully updated, covering new areas such as parking policies, reliability of travel times, and the privatization of transportation services, as well as updated treatments of congestion modelling, environmental costs, and transit subsidies. Small’s seminal textbook Urban Transportation Economics, co-authored with Erik T. Rigorous in approach and making use of real-world data and econometric techniques, it contains case studies from a range of countries including congestion charging in Norway, Singapore and the UK, light rail in the Netherlands and freeway tolls in the US.Small and Verhoef cover all basic topics needed for any application of economics to transportation: forecasting the demand for transportation services under alt