Transport economics
Subtitle: theory, application and policy
By: Graham Mallard and Stephen Glaister
Contributors: Glaister, Stephen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780230516878; 9780230516885
Subjects: Econometric models; Transportation; Transportation and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-303) and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene. The history of transport in Europe ; The importance of transport in the UK and Europe; title: The theory of markets : an overview. The demand for transport ; Markets, costs, and revenues ; Competition and contestability ; Monopoly ; Monopolistic competition ; Oligopoly; title: Market failure in the transport sector : an overview. Externalities ; Public and demerit goods ; Inequality, poverty and asymmetric information; title: Policy : an overview. Privatisation and deregulation ; Project appraisal : cost-benefit analysis ; Transport investment ; General forms of government intervention ; Tackling traffic congestion; title: The future. Concluding remarks.