The Economics of Urban Transportation
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415285151 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book is good, but the class is better!! Pedro V. Camargo This good is very complex for somebody that, like me, doesn't have a economics background. The math is quite simple (I'm an engineer, so my math is very good), but you need a lot of concepts and definitions from economics that you only get in regular courses of microeconomics and econometrics.If you are not an economists and have never taken an microeconomics course, start with Varian's microeconomics bookOther than that, I'd really recommend you to take his course at UCI if you can His classes are great, alth. Comprehensive and updated, a must have for the serious practitioners Emc2 This is a college textbook any serious transportation planner, economist and engineer must have in its library. Comprehensive and up to date. As an example, the chapter on pricing includes not only the Singapore case, but also the latest implementations of congestion pricing, including London, Norway, and Stockholm, and also a discussion of the technologies used for practical implementation of road pricing.Though the economic impact valuation of climate change is just briefly discussed, it caught my attention
This text should appear on the shelf of everyone practising transportation economics, and is likely to become the standard in the field - David Levinson, University of Minnesota
. Verhoef is Professor of Spatial Economics at VU University, Amsterdam. Erik T. Kenneth A. Small is Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California at Irvine
Verhoef, has been fully updated, covering new areas such as parking policies, reliability of travel times, and the privatization of transportation services, as well as updated treatments of congestion modelling, environmental costs, and transit subsidies. It will also be essential reading for researchers in any aspect of urban transportation.. Small’s seminal textbook Urban Transportation Economics, co-authored with Erik T. This timely new edition of Kenneth A. Rigorous in approach and making use of real-world data and econometric techniques, it contains case studies from a range of countries including congestion charging in Norway, Singapore and the UK, light rail in the Netherlands and freeway tolls in the US.Small and Verhoef cover all basic topics needed for any application of economics to transportation: forecasting the demand for transportation services under alternative policiesmeasuring all the costs incl