This timely new edition of Kenneth A. Small's seminal textbook Urban Transportation
Economics, co-authored with Erik T. Verhoef, has been fully updated, covering new areas …

THE PROMINENCE of transportation eco-t nomics within the discipline has had an uneven
history. At the turn of the twentieth century, transportation economics featured some of the …

The study of transportation involves researchers trained in many disciplines, including
engineering, economics, geography, planning, business, and regional science …

This article describes the impact and influence of the book, Studies in the Economics of
Transportation, by M. Beckmann, CB McGuire and CB Winsten, published in 1956 by Yale …

Striking a balance between societal benefits and costs of transportation lies at the heart of
transport planning and transport systems analysis. Increased transport and urbanization …

Engineers, planners, and policy analysts, among others, often have little formal training or
education in investment planning and pricing. Indeed, one can hardly expect otherwise …

This comprehensive survey of transportation economic policy pays homage to a classic
work, Techniques of Transportation Planning, by renowned transportation scholar John R …

In 2000, the average driver in US metropolitan areas endured 27 hours of traffic delays, a
rise from 7 hours in 1980. In many other countries, traffic delays are considerably worse than …

Urban transportation, for a complex set of reasons, has become a major concern of
American life and public policy in the mid-twentieth century. It is perhaps an example par …

Using a numerical model of the urban transportation sector, calibrated to data for Brussels
and for London, we calculate the optimal transport price structure and its effect on the …