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The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Contributions to Theory, Method and Measurement

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This is book is a welcome addition to the field of cost-benefit analysis in transportation. It contains contributions from 20 or so respected academics, each describing a separate field of study. I have seldom seen a fuller and more holistic approach to cost and benefits in transportation research.

Individual works of excellence

As mentioned, 20 or so academics, from around the world, including the USA, Germany, Australia and France, have submitted their own ideas on costs and benefits. Displaying my ignorance, I have to admit I don't know that many of them; perhaps I should, but I recognize their respective universisties as leading institutions in the field of transportation. Two I do know: I have met Douglass Lee of USDOT in person, when attending the TRB Annual Meeting in 2004. And I've run into David Hensher, ETC 2005 I think it was.

Outdated?

The book is not new. It was first published in 1997, and although the empirical data may no longer be anywhere near true, the principles and methodologies still hold. Still, given the price, it's probably not a book you would buy as a student. Even as a researcher with a big wallet I find pricetags of more than $100 inhibitively expensive.