Transportation is the world's largest invisible industry. Modern society is completely dependent on transportation to sustain its way of life, and it is all around us constantly. Yet the economics of transportation is a mystery to most people. Why do air fares rise and fall? Why do urban transit systems struggle to survive and require such large public subsidies? Why does freight transport cost more to move in one direction than an equal distance in another? Why is the government so heavily involved in transportation? Concepts of Transportation Economics provides explanations to these queries and many more, as well-renowned experts in the field, Barry E Prentice and Darren Prokop interpret the unique dynamics underlying transportation through the lens of applied economics, and demonstrate that the operations of transportation are completely logical and obvious once the concepts that underlie business decisions and consumer reactions are explained.

This book contains the introductory reports and dicussion summaries of the Eighth International Symposium on Theory and Practice in Transport Economics, held in Istanbul, 24-28 September 1979, and which focused on transport and the challenge of structural change.

A clear dichotomy exists between an European economy centred on international trade and the environmental damage to which this focus gives rise. There is a need for a novel approach based on a shift away from the goal of ever-faster travel and ...

This book presents the proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on theory and practice in transport economics held in Lisbon in 1992. The conference focused on transport growth.

These conference proceedings sketch a broad overview of transport economics research since the inception of the ECMT in 1953 and map out the directions for future work.

This book contains the introductory reports and discussion summary of the Seventh International Symposium on Theory and Practice in Transport Economics, held in London, 26th-29th September 1977. This conference focused on the contribution of economic research to transport policy discussions.

This proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Theory and Practice in Transport Economics, held in Madrid on 22-25 September 1975 focuses on transport and the economic situation and includes paper son human factors and transport, raw material resources and transport, and land use.

This book presents the proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on theory and practice in transport economics, held in West Berlin on 13-15 May 1985. The conference focused on evaluation of past and future transport policy measures.