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Book SynopsisTransport and mobility are critical for the economic development of cities and regions and are a key factor in achieving sustained economic growth. This collection brings together Peter Nijkamp's influential work in the areas of transport systems and transport policy.
The first part offers new theoretical insights and a review of the state-of-the-art in transportation science. The essays address issues such as the costs and benefits of transport, the role of price in transport demand, the impact of information and the potential of congestion pricing. The second part focuses attention on the modelling of transport systems. The third part comprises papers on transport infrastructure and includes studies on the impact of infrastructure and superstructure on economic growth, the costs of infrastructure construction, the evaluation of airport expansion and airport efficiency. The final part considers issues of public policy, including governance principles for sustainable urban transport, welfare implications of information policy, the economic consequences of airline deregulation, the use of policy scenarios for the far future and the transferability of transport policy to other areas.
This collection will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in all aspects of transport research and policy.
Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: Theory and Overview 1. Full Benefits and Costs of Transportation: Review and Prospects 2. Globalisation, Transport and the Environment: New Perspectives for Ecological Economics 3. A Meta-analysis of Price Elasticities of Transport Demand in a General Equilibrium Framework 4. Information in Road Networks with Multiple Origin–Destination Pairs 5. Second-Best Congestion Pricing: The Case of an Untolled Alternative Part II: Modelling Transport Systems 6. Spatial Equilibrium Models: A Survey with Special Emphasis on Transportation 7. Information Effects in Transport with Stochastic Capacity and Uncertainty Costs 8. Commuting: In Search of Jobs and Residences 9. Alonso’s Theory of Movements: Developments in Spatial Interaction Modeling 10. How do Carriers Price Connecting Flights? Evidence from Intercontinental Flights from Europe Part III: Transport Infrastructure 11. Infrastructure and Suprastructure in Regional Competition: A Deus ex Machina? 12. How Reliable are Estimates of Infrastructure Costs? A Comparative Analysis 13. A Multicriteria Decision Support Methodology for Evaluating Airport Expansion Plans 14. Relative Efficiency of European Airports Part IV: Transport Policy 15. New Governance Principles for Sustainable Urban Transport 16. Information Policy in Road Transport with Elastic Demand: Some Welfare Economic Considerations 17. European Airline Reform: An Empirical Welfare Analysis 18. Energy Scenarios for European Passenger Transport in the Year 2030 19. The Realities of using ‘Benefit Transfers’ in Transport Decision-Making Index
