Transportation economics
Subtitle: towards better performance systems
By: edited by Bart Jourquin, Piet Rietveld, and Kerstin Westin.
Contributors: Jourquin, Bart, 1964-; Rietveld, Piet.; Westin, Kerstin.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Transportation -- Management; Transportation -- Finance; Freight and freightage -- Management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Efficiency and sustainability in transport; title: 1.1 Intermodal versus unimodal road freight transport -a review of comparison of the external costs / E. Kreutzberger, C. Macaris and J. Woxenius; title: 1.2 Environmental impact of underground freight transport / J. Willigers and B van Wee; title: 1.3 Intelligent speed adaptation - increased safety through speed reduction / J. Garvill, A. Marell and K. Westin; title: 1.4 Peering and investments in interfaced networks / R. Roson; title: 1.5 Environmental vehicle rating system / J. van Mierlo, JM Timmermans, P. Van den Bossche, G. Maggetto, V. Favrel, S. Meyer and W. Hecq; title: Regulation and policies to stimulate better performance; title: 2.1. Is the debate over the contestability of airline markets really dead? / K. Button; title: 2.2. Decoupling transport growth and economic growth in Europe / D. Stead and D. Banister; title: 2.3. Travel plans: using good practice to inform future policy / M.P. Enoch and T. Rye; title: 2.4. Economies of scale, efficiency and government intervention in public transport / A. Mouwen and P. Rietveld; title: Methods and models related to valuation and efficiency analysis; title: 3.1 Dynamics of global supply chain supernetworks in a new era of risk and uncertainty / A. Nagurney and D. Matsypura; title: 3.2 Evaluating accessibility gains produces by new high speed train services / J.C. Martin, J. Gutiérrez and C. Román; title: 3.3 Evaluation of the cost performance of pre- and post-haulage in intermodal freight networks: analysis of the interaction of production models and demand characteristics / E. Kreutzberger, R. Konings and L.D. Aronson; title: 3.4 A methodological framework to analyse the market opportunities of short sea shipping: the adaptive stated preference approach / A. Bergantino, S. Bolis and C. Canali; title: 3.5 An improved framework for large-scale multi-agent simulation of travel behaviour / B. Raney and K. Nagel; title: 3.6 A multi-criteria approach to the strategic assessment of advanced driver assistance systems / Macharis, A. Stevens, K. De Brucker and A. Verbeke.