Transport economics Button, Kenneth

Contents
Preface
1. Transport and economics
2. Transport, transport markets and transport industries
3. Movement, transport and location
4. The demand for transport
5. The direct costs of transport
6. The external costs of transport
7. Pricing of transport services
8. Containing the environmental costs of transport
9. Optimizing traffic congestion
10. Some economics of transport logistic
11. Investment criteria – private and public sector analysis
12. Transport planning and forecasting
13. Transport and development
14. The economic regulation of transport
Index

Transport Economics is a thoroughly revised edition of a well-established textbook which applies economic analysis to transport issues.
Each chapter has been carefully reworked and includes new material dealing with the regulation of transport markets. The theoretical content is supported with considerable empirical evidence drawn from a wide range of international sources. Although aimed primarily at university students, this volume is accessible to non-specialists who have an interest in transport economics. It has no modal bias but rather examines in general terms the many aspects of the demand for, and supply of, transport together with the various methods of government intervention needed to ensure that social and environmental criteria are attained.
This successful and widely adopted textbook has been meticulously revised and updated for the third edition. As the best intermediate text currently available, it will be welcomed by students, policymakers and all those concerned with the supply of transport services.

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