Urban Transportation Economics

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Pub. Date: 1992-01-01
Publisher(s): Harwood Academic Pub
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Table of Contents

Introduction to the Series
Acknowledgment
Selected Symbols and Abbreviations
Introductionp. 1
The scope of urban transportation economicsp. 1
The scope of this reviewp. 3
Travel Demandp. 5
Aggregate modelsp. 6
Disaggregate modelsp. 12
Examples of disaggregate modelsp. 29
Assessment of travel-demand modelsp. 33
Value of timep. 36
Conclusionsp. 45
Costsp. 46
The nature of cost functionsp. 47
Cost functions for public transitp. 52
Highway travel: congestion technologyp. 61
Highway travel: short-run variable costsp. 75
Highway travel: long-run costsp. 94
Intermodal cost comparisonsp. 104
Pricing, Investment, and Industrial Organizationp. 106
Congestion pricing of highwaysp. 107
Pricing of parkingp. 126
Pricing of public transitp. 128
Capacity choice for highwaysp. 131
Cost-benefit analysisp. 138
Regulation and private provision of transportationp. 140
Conclusionsp. 153
Conclusion: Toward Unified Models of Urban Transportationp. 154
Appendix: Long-Run Cost Functions with Queueing and Endogenous Schedulingp. 157
Referencesp. 159
Indexp. 183
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