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Essays on Transport Economics

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Pablo Coto-Millán

    1. Department of Economics, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

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  2. Vicente Inglada

    1. Department of Applied Economics II, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Pozuelo Madrid, Spain

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      Pages 1-3

  3. Demand

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. A Reassessment of the Characterisation of Congestion on an Urban Road Network — Some Theoretical Suggestions and Illustrative Experiments

      • Truong P. Truong, David A. Hensher
      Pages 7-32

    3. Estimation of the Economic Value of Student Urban Travel Time

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, Vicente Inglada, Miguel A. Pesquera, Rubén Sainz, Nuria Sánchez
      Pages 33-50

    4. Price and Income Elasticities for Intercity Public Transport in Spain

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, Jose Baños-Pino, Gema Carrera-Gómez, Juan Castanedo-Galán, Miguel A. Pesquera, Vicente Inglada et al.
      Pages 51-62

  4. Supply and Efficiency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Classifying Urban Passenger Transportation Services

      • Wayne K. Talley
      Pages 65-77

    3. Analysis of the Allocative Efficiency in Public Firms: the Case of Railway

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, Jose Baños-Pino, Ana Rodríguez-Alvarez
      Pages 79-96

    4. The Effect of Using Aggregated Output in the Economic Analysis of Cargo Handling Operations

      • Sergio R. Jara-Díaz, Beatriz Tovar de la Fé, Lourdes Trujillo
      Pages 97-109

    5. Scale Economies, Elasticities of Substitution and Behaviour of the Railway Transport Costs in Spain

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, Gema Carrera-Gómez, Vicente Inglada, Ramón Núñez-Sánchez, Juan Castanedo, Miguel A. Pesquera et al.
      Pages 111-120

    6. Efficiency Stochastic Frontiers: a Panel Data Analysis for Spanish Airports (1992–1994)

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, Gema Carrera-Gómez, Juan Castanedo-Galán, Miguel A. Pesquera, Vicente Inglada, Rubén Sainz et al.
      Pages 121-126

    7. Multi-Output Analysis of the Costs and Productivity of Cargo Handling in Spanish Ports

      • Eduardo Martínez-Budría, Juan José Díaz-Hernández
      Pages 127-143

  5. Market and Economic Impact Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Economic Impact Study: Application to Ports

      • Bernard Francou, Gema Carrera-Gómez, Pablo Coto-Millán, Juan Castanedo-Galán, Miguel A. Pesquera
      Pages 147-157

    3. Airport Management and Airline Competition in OECD Markets

      • Germà Bel, Xavier Fageda
      Pages 159-181

    4. Dynamising Economic Impact Studies: the Case of the Port of Seville

      • José I. Castillo, Lourdes López-Valpuesta, María-José Aracil
      Pages 183-216

  6. Valuation of Benefits and Costs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Estimating the Economic Benefits of Bicycling and Bicycle Facilities: an Interpretive Review and Proposed Methods

      • Kevin J. Krizec
      Pages 219-248

    3. Valuation of Transport Externalities by Stated Choice Methods

      • Juan de Dios Ortúzar, Luis Ignacio Rizzi
      Pages 249-272
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An analysis of the history of economic thought reveals that transport and econ- ics have always gone hand-in-hand. Many methodological developments in e- nomic theory have emerged from the sphere of transport; Jules Dupuit (1849) and Arthur C. Pigou (1912), for example, proposed price setting in transport inf- structures, particularly on congested roads. This issue is referred to in economic literature as optimum price setting and is still the subject of much attention even today. It is difficult to imagine how the transcendental change in economic dev- opment brought about by the industrial revolution would have occurred without the invention of the railway. Today’s "new economics", which is for some an - novative concept in economic science, is also closely linked to transport. However, not only is transport present in the entire economic tissue, it is also a key element in individual behaviour, revealed in decisions about work, place of residence and location of companies, among others. One characteristic of transport is that it is a service that can also be used as an intermediary factor in the production process or form part of final household c- sumption. Studies on this sector therefore have a number of dimensions. As it encompasses a number of branches of economic theory, the study of transport from an economic point of view is an ideal test bench for applying the methodological developments of economic science to the real world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

    Pablo Coto-Millán

  • Department of Applied Economics II, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Pozuelo Madrid, Spain

    Vicente Inglada

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