This book explores analytical methods used in transportation economics and policy analysis. Encompassing fields of economics such as Industrial Organisation, Welfare Economics, General Equilibrium Theory and Input-Output-Analysis, the study of transport from an economic point of view serves as a test bench for applying methodologies of economic science to the real world. Each chapter opens with a brief theoretical introduction before evaluating case studies, using the state-of-the-art statistical and econometric techniques.

InhaltsangabeDemand.- A Reassessment of the Characterisation of Congestion on an Urban Road Network - Some Theoretical Suggestions and Illustrative Experiments.- Estimation of the Economic Value of Student Urban Travel Time.- Price and Income Elasticities for Intercity Public Transport in Spain.- Supply and Efficiency.- Classifying Urban Passenger Transportation Services.- Analysis of the Allocative Efficiency in Public Firms: the Case of Railway.- The Effect of Using Aggregated Output in the Economic Analysis of Cargo Handling Operations.- Scale Economies, Elasticities of Substitution and Behaviour of the Railway Transport Costs in Spain.- Efficiency Stochastic Frontiers: a Panel Data Analysis for Spanish Airports (1992-1994).- Multi-Output Analysis of the Costs and Productivity of Cargo Handling in Spanish Ports.- Market and Economic Impact Studies.- Economic Impact Study: Application to Ports.- Airport Management and Airline Competition in OECD Markets.- Dynamising Economic Impact Studies: the Case of the Port of Seville.- Valuation of Benefits and Costs.- Estimating the Economic Benefits of Bicycling and Bicycle Facilities: an Interpretive Review and Proposed Methods.- Valuation of Transport Externalities by Stated Choice Methods.- Externalities Analysis of Investments in Infrastructure: a Practical Approach.- Transportation Network and Information and Communications Technology.- ITS-Based Transport Concepts and Location Preference: Will ITS Change 'Business as Usual'?.- The Economics of Transportation Network Growth.- Transport Network Development and the Location of Economic Activity.- Mapping the Terrain of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Household Travel.

Part I: Demand.- Part II: Supply and Efficiency.- Part III: Market and Economic Impact Study.- Part IV: Regulation and Cost Benefit Analysis.- Part V: Externalities.- Part VI: Transportation Network and Information and Communications Technology.