Essays on Transport Economics (Contributions to Economics)

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Contributions to Economics......Page 3
Essays on
Transport Economics......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 13
PART I DEMAND......Page 16
1 A Reassessment of the Characterisation of
Congestion on an Urban Road Network – Some
Theoretical Suggestions and Illustrative
Experiments......Page 17
2 Estimation of the Economic Value of Student
Urban Travel Time......Page 43
3 Price and Income Elasticities for Intercity Public
Transport in Spain......Page 61
PART II SUPPLY AND EFFICIENCY......Page 73
4 Classifying Urban Passenger Transportation
Services......Page 74
5 Analysis of the Allocative Efficiency in Public
Firms: the Case of Railway......Page 87
6 The Effect of Using Aggregated Output in the
Economic Analysis of Cargo Handling Operations......Page 105
7 Scale Economies, Elasticities of Substitution
and Behaviour of the Railway Transport Costs in
Spain......Page 118
8 Efficiency Stochastic Frontiers: a Panel Data
Analysis for Spanish Airports (1992-1994)......Page 128
9 Multi-Output Analysis of the Costs and
Productivity of Cargo Handling in Spanish Ports......Page 134
PART III MARKET AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
STUDIES......Page 151
10 Economic Impact Study: Application to Ports......Page 152
11 Airport Management and Airline Competition
in OECD Markets......Page 163
12 Dynamising Economic Impact Studies: the
Case of the Port of Seville......Page 186
PART IV VALUATION OF BENEFITS AND
COSTS......Page 220
13 Estimating the Economic Benefits of Bicycling
and Bicycle Facilities: an Interpretive Review and
Proposed Methods......Page 221
14 Valuation of Transport Externalities by Stated
Choice Methods......Page 251
15 Externalities Analysis of Investments in
Infrastructure: a Practical Approach......Page 275
PART V TRANSPORTATION NETWORK AND
INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY......Page 292
16 ITS-Based Transport Concepts and Location
Preference: Will ITS Change ‘Business as Usual’?......Page 293
17 The Economics of Transportation Network
Growth......Page 316
18 Transport Network Development and the
Location of Economic Activity......Page 339
19 Mapping the Terrain of Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) and
Household Travel......Page 360