Books in the Research in Transportation Economics series

A collection of papers examining the economic impact of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) from the perspective of public and private sector decision makers as well as technology users.

Reviews the transport pricing policy debate and reports on the advances made in measuring the marginal social costs of transport, particularly through UNITE and other European research projects. This book examines how the results of case studies might be generalised to obtain estimates of marginal social costs for various circumstances.

Shows the changes in the transportation arena. This title presents a diverse view of transportation economics, in a field that is forever changing as regulations change, economic growth continues, and our econometric and modeling methods become increasingly refined.

This is a collection of papers tackling the theoretical and practical issues surrounding the subject of road pricing as a means of dealing with increasing traffic congestion.

Two major U.S. Midwestern railroads, the Rock Island Lines and the Milwauke Road, filed for bankruptcy after 1975 and the Court ordered them dismembered. This study explains the economic factors causing financial failure such as total rail line excess capacity in the region leading to low density of freight traffic.

Features debate on deregulation's influence on transportation labor markets by presenting empirical evidence on an array of labor market outcomes in transportation industries. This book features topics that are categorized by their analysis on worker safety, and working conditions and employment opportunities.