Marina Van Geenhuizen, Piet Rietveld

Policy Analysis of Transport Networks

Herausgeber: Reggiani, Aura

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Interdisciplinary contributors from across Europe and the USA join together in this book to provide a timely overview of the latest theories and policies related to transport networks. They cover topical issues such as: environmental benefits of substitution of aviation by high speed trains; incident management; impacts of aviation deregulation; and time savings in freight transport. The book also breaks new ground on the development of new methods of cost benefit analysis and other approaches in policy analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 663g
• ISBN-13: 9780754645474
• ISBN-10: 0754645479
• Artikelnr.: 45635715

Autorenporträt

Marina van Geenhuizen is Associate Professor in the Section System Innovation and Regional Development, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. Aura Reggiani is Professor in Economic Policy in the Department of Economics, Faculty of Statistics at University of Bologna, Italy. Piet Rietveld worked at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Austria) and was research co-ordinator at Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana in Salatiga, Indonesia. Since 1990 he has been Professor in Transport Economics at the Faculty of Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is a fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. He is also the head of department of Spatial Economics and chairman of NECTAR.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; New trends in policy making for transport and regional
network integration, Marina van Geenhuizen, Aura Reggiani and Piet
Rietveld. Part I Policy Analysis in the Transport Field: Equity issues in
the evaluation of transport policies and transport infrastructure projects,
Piet Rietveld, Jan Rouwendal and Arno van der Vlist; Economic impact
assessment for analysing the viability of regional airports in Norway,
Svein Brathen and Knut S. Eriksen; Modelling the short-term impacts of a
nuclear accident on transportation flows, Peder Axensten; Models and
realities: choosing transit projects for New York City, Robert Paaswell and
Joseph Berechman; A framework for identifying and qualifying uncertainty in
policy making: the case of intelligent transport systems, Marina van
Geenhuizen and Wil Thissen; An evaluation of benefits from aircraft and
high-speed train substitution, Moshe Givoni; The value of travel time in
passenger and freight transport: an overview, Luca Zamparini and Aura
Reggiani. Part II Transport Policies and Regional Network Integration: Less
friction and more traffic? Examples of the impact of the fixed links of the
Great Belt and Oresund on Danish firms' organization of transport and
logistics, Leif Gjesing Hansen; Accessibility impacts of the trans-European
railway network, J. Carlos Martin, Javier Gutierrez and Conception Roman;
The role of infrastructure in location preferences of firms: an overview of
empirical research for the Netherlands, Frank Bruinsma and Piet Rietveld;
The spatial consequences of air transport deregulation: an overview of the
French case since 1995, Pierre Zembri; ICTs and high-order integration of
remote regions. Distance as a remaining barrier?, Marina van Geenhuizen;
Interaction in the Baltic sea area. Patterns from an aviation perspective,
Jan Henrik Nilsson; Structural convergence of the national economies of
Europe, Marco Percoco, Sandy Dall'erba and Geoffrey J. D. Hewings; Index.