Urban Transport Economics (Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1992 | ISBN-10: 3718651696 | ISBN-13: 978-3718651696

A comprehensive review of the economics of urban transportation. This book presents mutually consistent models of demand, cost, pricing, investment criteria, and industrial organization; these can be combined to describe equilibria of the entire urban transportation system under various policies. Models are described with empirical content and international data are used to demonstrate how the models can be applied. The importance of highway transportation is reflected in the attention paid to models of congestion and highway investment. The author goes beyond standard congestion models by incorporating people's choice for timing their trips. This book is intended as an advanced textbook and reference volume for graduate students and researchers in transportation, urban economics, and related fields.

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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

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Kenneth A. Small is Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California at Irvine.

Erik T. Verhoef is Professor of Spatial Economics at VU University, Amsterdam.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 185 pages
• Publisher: Routledge (January 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3718651696
• ISBN-13: 978-3718651696
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,020,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The book is good, but the class is better!!, February 28, 2010

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This review is from: The Economics of Urban Transportation (Paperback)

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 book...

Other than that, I'd really recommend you to take his course at UCI if you can... His classes are great, although he only teaches once every 3 or so years...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and updated, a must have for the serious practitioners, October 18, 2009

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This review is from: The Economics of Urban Transportation (Paperback)

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 that as good economists the authors had the courage of being politically incorrect by saying openly that "...precise prediction of effects of carbon dioxide on climate is impossible" (see page 105), but don't get confused, they are not deniers, the subject is objectively discussed within the context of environmental externalities caused by automobiles in urban areas.