Transport Economic Theory - by Sergio Jara-Diaz (Hardcover)

About the Book

Aims to provide the basic concepts and tools for the economic analysis of transport systems, with emphasis on the behaviour of users and operators. This book focuses on the behavior of users and operators outside of traditional economic behavior theory. It includes time and space as a distinctive feature of transport economics.

Book Synopsis

The study of transport is the study of movements, of displacements of individuals and things in both space and time. The objective of this book is to provide the basic concepts and tools for the economic analysis of transport systems, with emphasis on the behaviour of users and operators. Distinctive features will be introduced and treated as the natural consequence of processes that deal with displacements in space-time. Emphasis will be given to the operation of transportation systems, i.e. to the actual form of combining vehicles, terminals and rights-of-way in order to produce certain level of flows of different things in different directions. Thus, ours will be a short run oriented view, dealing with the adequate usage of resources for given levels of investment. This book focuses on the behavior of users and operators outside of traditional economic behavior theory. It includes time and space as a distinctive feature of transport economics.

Review Quotes

.,."the author builds up the theoretical toolkit in economic theories of production, cost, demand, valuation and pricing."
Professor David A. Hensher FASSA, Director, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney.

, .."the author builds up the theoretical toolkit in economic theories of production, cost, demand, valuation and pricing."
Professor David A. Hensher FASSA, Director, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney.