TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prentice, Barry E.
AU  - Prokop, Darren
TI  - Concepts of transportation economics
SN  - 9789814656160
U1  - 388.049 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Jersey
PB  - World Scientific
KW  - PL
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Transportation
KW  - Costs
KW  - Commercial products
KW  - Transportation and state
N1  - Contents : Structure of the text -- Transportation and economic theory --
1. Transportation, logistics and technology --
 2. The demand for transportation --
 3. Trade and transportation costs -- 
4. Laws of variable proportions and scale -- 
5. Laws of variable proportions and scale -- 
6. Cost economics and traceability -- 
7. Modal supply characterstics -- 
8. Markets and competition in transportation -- 
9. Externalities, public supply and marginal cost pricing -- 
10.. Spatial and temporal pricing in transportation -- 
11. Product pricing in transportation -- 
12. Transportation, investment and generalized cost -- 
13. Location and land settlement -- 
14. Transportation and government policy --
15. Regulatory enforcement and compliance

N2  - This book combines approaches from economics as well as business administration to stimulate scientific discourse and support decision-makers. The first part of the book examines the relationship between transport and economic growth, and specifically, whether "decoupling" of transport and economic growth appears possible
ER  -