Essays on Transport Economics

by Pablo Coto-Millan

An analysis of the history of economic thought reveals that transport and econ- ics have always gone hand-in-hand. Many methodological developments in e- nomic theory have emerged from the sphere of transport; Jules Dupuit (1849) and Arthur C. Pigou (1912), for example, proposed price setting in transport inf- structures, particularly on congested roads. This issue is referred to in economic literature as optimum price setting and is still the subject...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3790817643
• ISBN13: 9783790817645
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Physica-Verlag
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"