The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation

The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
Author: David L. Greene
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1997-07-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783540631231

Modern transportation systems have far-reaching, and serious consequences: deaths and injuries from accidents, pollution of air, water and groundwater, noise congestion, and the greenhouse effect. As world transport systems expand and become increasingly motorised, the transportation community is searching for systems that are both efficient and sustainable. Here, leading international researchers explore the issues and concepts and define the state of knowledge concerning the full costs and benefits of transportation.

The Economics of Urban Transportation

The Economics of Urban Transportation
Author: Kenneth A. Small
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2024-06-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 135165344X

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. All of the basic topics needed to apply economics to urban transportation are included: Forecasting demand for transportation services under various conditions Measuring costs, including those incurred by users and incorporating two new tools to describe congestion in dense urban areas Setting prices under practical constraints Evaluating infrastructure investments Understanding how private and public sectors interact to provide services Written by three of the field’s leading researchers, The Economics of Urban Transportation is essential reading for students, researchers, and practicing professionals in transportation economics, planning, engineering, or related disciplines. With a focus on workable models that can be adapted to future needs, it provides tools for a rapidly changing world.

Paratransit

Paratransit
Author: Corinne Mulley
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2016-10-07
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1786352257

Recent technological advances have made feasible new and improved approaches for organizing and delivering local passenger transportation. This book draws on a selection of papers presented at the International Paratransit Conference in Monterey in October 2014 to capture these exciting developments.

A Comparative Analysis of Urban Transportation Requirements

A Comparative Analysis of Urban Transportation Requirements
Author: United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publisher:
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1977
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

Study of transit systems and urban travel in selected cities in Belgium, Canada, France, West Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and South Korea.