The Economics Of Urban Transportation, Kenneth Small And Erik Verhoef, Routledge, London (2007)

摘要

The Economics of Urban Transportation by Kenneth Small and Erik Verhoef is the latest book in the emerging area of transportation economics, and updates and extends Small's earlier 'Urban Transportation Economics', published in 1992. The book comprises five chapters: Demand, Costs, Pricing, Investment, and Industrial Organization of Transportation Providers. These five chapters cover many of the important transportation economic issues that have emerged in the academic literature over the past three decades, including deregulation, privatization, and road pricing. The book provides the underlying theory that is leading economists, and increasingly policy-makers to examine alternative formulations of transportation systems. It is perhaps most pertinent in the area of road pricing, where a confluence of events, including the opportunities presented by electronic toll collection, continuing congestion, and the coming switch away from gasoline (and thus the gas tax) are making this an issue all transportation professionals will confront in one form or another over the coming decade.