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This book takes an interdisciplinary, institutional and historically informed approach to the economics of transport, providing a comprehensive understanding of human transport choices and the related choice of location, including the formation of cities. This book would appeal to university students, researchers and policymakers.
Sommario
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Glossary of Main Transport and Economics Terms
Useful Websites and Further Reading
Section 1: Transport economics basics
1. Introduction
2. Basic elements
3. Markets
4. Geography
Section 2: Transport Demand
5. User travel choices
6. Modes and mode choice
7. Cost
8. Transport and the human body
Section 3: Transport supply
9. Infrastructure and vehicles
10. Finance and funding
11. Planning, management and governance
12. Operational issues
Section 3: "System" policy issues
13. Externalities and other market failures
14. Justice, equity, disadvantage and social exclusion
15. Economic evaluation of transport
16. Logistics, freight, and supply and value chains
17. Resilience and sustainability
18. Political economy
19. Human factors
20. Micro-mobility versus large networks and Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
21. Some conclusions above the past, present and future
Index
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Cameron Elliott Gordon is Adjunct Associate Professor (Australian National University) and has been on the faculties of the City University of New York and University of Southern California; served on Transportation Research Board (TRB) program committees; and worked in the US federal, and New York City governments.
