Transport Infrastructure (Classics in Transport Analysis series, 4) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840645547 ISBN 13: 9781840645545

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

Understanding the economics and the wider impact of transport infrastructure presents a major challenge to economists. The scale of investment, indivisibilities, the setting of appropriate charges and the rate of economic growth are problems which require analysis and create controversy. Further contentious issues are the need to rely on public sector finance and certain ambiguities concerning impact on productivity.

The editors have brought together in Transport Infrastructure a set of classic readings in the literature which show the development of analysis in this field. As the names in this volume illustrate, some of the best economic thinkers of the twentieth century have addressed these multi-faceted problems.

This authoritative new collection of previously published papers presents a selection of developments in a field which is still attracting new ideas and challenging transport planners and governments in both the developed and developing world.

About this title

About the Author:

Roger Stough, Northern Virginia Endowed Chair and Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Roger Vickerman, Jean Monnet Professor of European Economics, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, Kenneth Button, Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University and Peter Nijkamp, Professor in Regional, Urban and Environmental Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1840645547
• ISBN 13: 9781840645545
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 680
• Editor: Stough Roger R., Vickerman Roger, Button Kenneth, Nijkamp Peter