The routledge handbook of transport economics / Jonathan Cowie, Stephen Ison.
By: Cowie, Jonathan.
Contributor(s): Ison, Stephen.
Material type: BookSeries: Routledge Handbooks.Publisher: London : Routledge, 2018Description: 440 p.Subject(s): Desenvolvimento econômico | Economia do transporte | Transporte de mercadorias | Transporte público | Transporte -- aspectos econômicosItem type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Livros | 338.47:656 C874r (Browse shelf) | ex.1 | Available | 8592 | ||
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Inclui bibliografia e índice.
Passenger rail structure and reform / Simon Blainey -- Bus economics / Peter White -- The pricing of public transport services / Corinne Mulley and Marco Batarce -- Perfect Information and intelligent transport systems / John D. Nelson -- Passenger air traffic / Peter Forsyth -- Public service contracts: the economics of reform with special reference to the bus sector / David A. Hensher -- Rail regulation / Chris Nash, Valerio Benedetto and Andrew Smith -- The impact of reform on public transport markets / John Preston -- Airline deregulation / Lucy Budd -- Forecasting the demand for transport / John Bates -- The principles behind transport appraisal / John Nellthorp -- Congestion pricing / Jonas Eliasson -- Transport modelling and economic theory / Kathryn Stewart -- Efficiency assessment in transport services / Rico Merkert and Jonathan Cowie -- The environment in the provision of transport / Maria Attard -- The tools available under a green transport policy / Tom Rye -- Options and practicalities of a green transport policy / Rebecca Johnson -- Sustainable travel or sustaining growth? / Robin Hickman -- Short sea shipping and ferries / James D. Frost and Mary R. Brooks -- Competition and complementarity in road freight: key drivers and consequences of a dominant market position / Jonathan Cowie -- Rail freight / Allan Woodburn -- Air cargo / Thomas Budd and Robert Mayer -- Intermodal freight transport / Jason Monios.
Este livro oferece a primeira visão geral da disciplina de economia do transporte, hoje em dia, refletindo a pesquisa e a política chave. O transporte é uma importante área de estudo e que estimula um grande debate em áreas que afetam o cotidiano. Grande parte disso se concentra nos aspectos práticos do fenômeno moderno dos movimentos de massa e de todas as questões que o cercam. A disciplina da economia é fundamental para este debate e, consequentemente, o estudo e a aplicação da economia dos transportes têm um papel importante a desempenhar na busca por abordar assuntos relacionados a grandes questões do transporte.
COWIE, Jonathan; ISON, Stephen (Ed.). The routledge handbook of transport economics. London: Routledge, 2018. (Routledge Handbooks).