Economics of the Road Transport
Author: Ravinder N. Batta
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9788178356464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ravinder N. Batta
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9788178356464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: K.G. Fenelon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-04-28
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1351806157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Even in an age accustomed to the rapid commercial exploitation of new inventions, the great and extensive development of mechanical road transport stands out conspicuously. This book, first published in 1925, traces this development and analyses the economics of road transport.
Author: K.G. Fenelon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-04-28
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1351806165
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Even in an age accustomed to the rapid commercial exploitation of new inventions, the great and extensive development of mechanical road transport stands out conspicuously. This book, first published in 1925, traces this development and analyses the economics of road transport.
Author: Erik Verhoef
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1848440251
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →. . . the book provides ample evidence of the various and often complex issues that arise in road pricing policies. New research is presented on topics mostly neglected in the past (such as the role of firms in rod pricing, or new insights from dynamic network models). Tilmann Rave, Journal of Regional Science Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a mono-disciplinary perspective. This book shows how a multi-disciplinary approach may lead to new types of analysis and insights, contributing to a better understanding of the intricacies of transport pricing and eventually to a potentially more effective and acceptable design of such policies. The study addresses important policy and research themes such as the possible motives for introducing road transport pricing and potential conflicts between these motives, behavioural responses to transport pricing for households and firms, the modelling of transport pricing, and the acceptability of pricing. Studying road transport pricing from a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book will be of great interest to transport policymakers and advisors, transport academics and consultants and students in transport studies.
Author: E. T. Verhoef
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For students and policy makers interested in environmental and transportation economics, Verhoef (spatial econometrics, Free U. of Amsterdam) explores welfare economic evaluations of regulatory policies aimed directly or indirectly at containing market failures in road transportation. Taking account of efficiency, equity, and social feasibility, his discussions range from static analyses at the level of individual actors and firms, to the dynamic behavior of large spatio-economic systems. Most of the chapters draw heavily from articles previously published or forthcoming in professional journals. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Kenneth A. Small
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-10-18
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1134495714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This timely new edition of Kenneth A. Small’s seminal textbook Urban Transportation Economics, co-authored with 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. 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 alternative policies measuring all the costs including those incurred by users setting prices under practical constraints choosing and evaluating investments in basic facilities designing ways in which the private and public sectors interact to provide services. This book will be of great interest to students with basic calculus and some knowledge of economic theory who are engaged with transportation economics, planning and, or engineering, travel demand analysis, and many related fields. It will also be essential reading for researchers in any aspect of urban transportation.
Author: Herman G. Tak
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The economic evaluation of a project in any sector entails the measurement and comparison of cost and benefit streams expected from alternative investments. This paper presents an exposition of the social surplus method of measuring benefits. The exposition is intended to shed light on the nature of benefits to be expected from road transport projects, both with and without various types of market imperfections, and in particular, to show how these benefits relate to changes in the supply and demand of transported commodities. Thus one purpose of the paper is purely expository; to record the economic mechanics behind the social surplus method of benefit evaluation as applied to road projects. In the following chapters, the paper presents a method of measuring benefits which takes traffic responses into account, discusses the factors underlying their relative importance, relates the benefits to associated changes in the production and consumption of the transported commodity, and interprets the impact of market imperfections on benefit measurement.
Author: Michael Robert Bonavia
Publisher: London : Nisbet
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dudley Frank Pegrum
Publisher: Homewood, Ill : R. D. Irwin
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 652
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Olof Johansson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1134171102
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Evidence has come to light regarding the impact of benzene emissions from road transport, the incidence of asthmatic attacks and the possible toll of particulate matter from diesel engines on human health. This book examines the issues and argues that, without a fundamental change in policy, it is inevitable that the transport sector will continue to impose increasing costs on the natural environment, human health and the economy. It also quantifies the external costs of road transport and suggests new measures, such as road pricing and financial incentives, to pave the way to a sustainable transport system.