The economics of urban transportation

By:

Small, Kenneth, A

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Routledge New York 2024Edition: 3rdDescription: xvii, 414 pISBN:

9781138069053

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DDC classification:

388.4 KEN

Summary: This new edition of the seminal textbook The Economics of Urban Transportation incorporates the latest research affecting the design, implementation, pricing, and control of transport systems in towns and cities. The book offers an economic framework for understanding the societal impacts and policy implications of many factors including congestion, traffic safety, climate change, air quality, COVID-19, and newly important developments such as ride-hailing services, electric vehicles, and autonomous vehicles. Rigorous in approach and making use of real-world data and econometric techniques, the third edition features a new chapter on the special challenges of managing the energy that powers transportation systems. It provides fully updated coverage of well-known topics and a rigorous treatment of new ones. (https://www.routledge.com/The-Economics-of-Urban-Transportation/Small-Verhoef-Lindsey/p/book/9781138069053)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Public Policy & General Management	388.4 KEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		008553

Table of contents:
1. Introduction

2. Travel demand

3. Costs

4. Pricing and usage

5. Investment

6. Industrial organization of transportation providers

7. Transportation, energy, and climate

8. Conclusion
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This new edition of the seminal textbook The Economics of Urban Transportation incorporates the latest research affecting the design, implementation, pricing, and control of transport systems in towns and cities. The book offers an economic framework for understanding the societal impacts and policy implications of many factors including congestion, traffic safety, climate change, air quality, COVID-19, and newly important developments such as ride-hailing services, electric vehicles, and autonomous vehicles.

Rigorous in approach and making use of real-world data and econometric techniques, the third edition features a new chapter on the special challenges of managing the energy that powers transportation systems. It provides fully updated coverage of well-known topics and a rigorous treatment of new ones.

(https://www.routledge.com/The-Economics-of-Urban-Transportation/Small-Verhoef-Lindsey/p/book/9781138069053)

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