Author: Hugh MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
A Critical Review of API's Estimates of Road User Payments and Expenditures
Journal of Transportation and Statistics
Author: Reply to Critics of Transportation Costing
Author: Todd LitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Recent studies identify significant external costs from motor vehicle use. In response, various automobile industry supported organizations (called Critics in this paper) have published reports attacking these studies. These Critics argue that many transportation costs do not exist or are not externalities, and that changing prices to internalize costs would be inappropriate. This paper critiques these reports. Several analytic weaknesses are identified. The Critics misinterpret the concepts of costs and externalities, ignore marginal analysis, assume that uncertain costs have zero value, claim undemonstrated external benefits, miscalculate tax revenues, omit significance cost categories, and many cases are simply incorrect in their facts. They claim to analyse externalities of automobile use when they actually consider subsidies between drivers and non-drivers. Externalities and subsidies are different economic concepts, but the Critics use them interchangeably and selectively to support their arguments.
Transport
Author: Susan HansonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This series of articles charts the development of thinking about space, place, and transport. Divided into four parts, the articles cover fundamental concepts, individual behaviour in urban spatial context, inter-regional transport and policy issues. Taken together, the articles highlight the role that a geographic perspective has played in transport studies, raise questions about transport policy, and point to additional questions worthy of research.
Estimates of Annual U.S. Road User Payments Versus Annual Road Expenditures
Author: Rayola DougherTransportation Research Record
Author: Partnerships for Effective Technology Transfer
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diffusion of innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Publications, Programs & Services
Author: American Petroleum InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Traffic Congestion
Author: Alberto BullPublisher: Santiago, Chile : United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
U.S. Freight Rail Economics and Policy
Author: Jeffrey T. MacherPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429632150
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The passage of the Staggers Rail Act in 1980 led brought a renaissance to the freight rail industry. In the decade following, economists documented the effects of the Act on a variety of important economic metrics including prices, costs, and productivity. Over the preceding years, and with the return of the industry to more stable footing, attention to the industry by economists faded. The lack of attention, however, has not been due to a dearth of ongoing economic and policy issues that continue to confront the industry. In this volume, we begin to rectify this inattention. Rather than retread older analyses or provide yet another look at the consequences of Staggers, we assemble a collection of ten chapters in four sections that collectively provide fresh and up-to-date analyses of the economic issues and policy challenges the industry faces: the first section sets the context through foundational discussion of freight rail; the second section highlights the role of freight rail in an increasingly interrelated economy; the third section examines industry structure and scope in freight rail; and the fourth section assesses current regulatory challenges that confront freight rail. This book will be of great value to researchers, academics, policymakers, and students interested in the fields of freight rail economics and policy, transportation, business history, and regulatory economics.