Handbook on Transport Pricing and Financing

Handbook on Transport Pricing and Financing
Author: Alejandro Tirachini
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2023-05-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1800375557

Taking a comprehensive approach to two central, closely intertwined themes in the field of transport economics, this illuminating Handbook recognizes the critical socioeconomic importance of transport pricing and financing.

Making Transit Work

Making Transit Work
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee for an International Comparison of National Policies and Expectations Affecting Public Transit
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, National Research Council
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780309067485

This report was prepared for policy makers searching for ways to boost public transit use in U.S. urban areas and wishing to know what can be learned from the experiences of Canada and Western Europe. Describes the differences in public transit use among U.S., Canadian, and Western European cities; identifies those factors, from urban form to automobile usage, that have contributed to these differences; and offers hypotheses about the reasons for these differences--from historical, demographic, and economic conditions to specific public policies, such as automobile taxation and urban land use regulation.

Strategies to Increase Coordination of Transportation Services for the Transportation Disadvantaged

Strategies to Increase Coordination of Transportation Services for the Transportation Disadvantaged
Author:
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2004
Genre: Older people
ISBN: 0309088135

"TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 105: Strategies to Increase Coordination of Transportation Services for the Transportation Disadvantaged examines strategies for initiating or improving coordination of local and regional publicly funded transportation services for the transportation disadvantaged"--Publisher's description.

Transportation in Canada 2006

Transportation in Canada 2006
Author: Canada. Transport Canada
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2006
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780662458890

Annual report on transportation in Canada for the year. The mandate of this report is broad. It sets out to consider all significant aspects of Canada's transportation system. Describes features of transport activities, whether provided publicly or privately and whether jurisdiction rests with municipal, provincial, territorial or federal governments. Modes of transportation include: air, marine, rail, road network, bus, private passenger vehicles, and intermodal freight. Also presents government spending, financial performance of carriers, safety, environment, industry trends in price and productivity, transport and trade, and transport and tourist travel.