Introduction to the Series | |
Acknowledgment | |
Selected Symbols and Abbreviations | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The scope of urban transportation economics | p. 1 |
The scope of this review | p. 3 |
Travel Demand | p. 5 |
Aggregate models | p. 6 |
Disaggregate models | p. 12 |
Examples of disaggregate models | p. 29 |
Assessment of travel-demand models | p. 33 |
Value of time | p. 36 |
Conclusions | p. 45 |
Costs | p. 46 |
The nature of cost functions | p. 47 |
Cost functions for public transit | p. 52 |
Highway travel: congestion technology | p. 61 |
Highway travel: short-run variable costs | p. 75 |
Highway travel: long-run costs | p. 94 |
Intermodal cost comparisons | p. 104 |
Pricing, Investment, and Industrial Organization | p. 106 |
Congestion pricing of highways | p. 107 |
Pricing of parking | p. 126 |
Pricing of public transit | p. 128 |
Capacity choice for highways | p. 131 |
Cost-benefit analysis | p. 138 |
Regulation and private provision of transportation | p. 140 |
Conclusions | p. 153 |
Conclusion: Toward Unified Models of Urban Transportation | p. 154 |
Appendix: Long-Run Cost Functions with Queueing and Endogenous Scheduling | p. 157 |
References | p. 159 |
Index | p. 183 |
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