Table of Contents

Contents:

1. Introduction
Chris Nash

PART I COSTS
2. Road and Rail Infrastructure Costs
Heike Link

3. Public Transport Operations Costs
Andrew Smith, Phill Wheat and Michal Wolanski

4. Freight Costs
Tony Fowkes

PART II EXTERNALITIES
5. Valuing Transport Externalities
Luis I. Rizzi and Juan de Dios Ortúzar

6. Road Congestion
Anthony D. May, Ronghui Liu and Simon Shepherd

7. Congestion and Scarcity in Scheduled Transport Modes
Jan-Eric Nilsson

8. Accidents
Gunnar Lindberg

PART III DEMAND
9. Demand for Road transport
John Bates

10. Public Transport Demand
John Preston

11. Freight Demand
Gerard de Jong

PART IV PRICING AND INVESTMENT
12. Road Pricing and Investment
Bruno de Borger and Stef Proost

13. Pricing Public Transport Services
Jan Owen Jansson, Johan Holmgren and Anders Ljungberg

14. Airport Pricing and Investment
Ginés de Rus and Ofelia Betancor

15. Port Pricing
Hilde Meersman, Siri Pettersen Strandenes and Eddy Van de Voorde,

PART V DEREGULATION AND PRIVATISATION
16. Local and Regional Public Transport
Didier Van de Velde

17. Rail
Chris Nash

18. Airlines
Steve Morrison

Part VI Transport Policy Impacts
19. Economic Impacts of Transport Policy
Roger Vickerman

20. Approaches to Internalisation of Transport Externalities
Werner Rothengatter

21. Equity in Transport
John Stanley and Janet Stanley

Index

About the Author

Edited by Chris Nash, Research Professor, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, UK and Visiting Professor, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Reviews

'This book's title reveals a great ambition and the content, which covers all transport modes and all critical issues of our discipline, reaches a remarkable level of thoroughness. I have no doubt this book will become a most valuable tool for students and researchers in transport economics.'- Alain Bonnafous, University of Lyon, Laboratory of Transport Economics, France