Handbook of transport strategy, policy and institutions /
Privatisation, regulation, deregulation, competition, funding, evaluation: these are all transport policy issues of great current interest worldwide, in the public arena as well as among researchers. In 46 chapters by acknowledged experts on their topics, these and other aspects of transport policy...
| Други автори: | Button, Kenneth John., Hensher, David A., 1947- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Amsterdam ; New York :
Elsevier,
2005.
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| Издание: | 1st ed. |
| Серия: |
Handbooks in transport ;
6. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Handbook of transport strategy, policy and institutions. |
Съдържание:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction to the Series
- Introduction
- Market and Government Failures in Transportation
- Introduction
- Nature of Market Failures
- Government intervention Failures
- Conclusions
- References
- Regulatory Transitions
- Introduction
- Origins of the Regulatory Transition Problem
- Issues in Regulatory Transitions
- Ramsey Pricing and Maximum Reasonable Rates
- Competition Policy in the Transition to Deregulation
- Pricing Competitive Access in the Transition to Deregulation
- Revenue adequacy and stranded costs
- Conclusion
- References
- Economic Deregulation in the USAa
- Introduction
- Rationale for Economic Regulation
- History of network deregulation
- Results of network deregulation and continuing issues
- Conclusion
- References
- Tendering of Services
- Introduction
- Forms of tendering
- Theoretical evidence on tendering
- Empirical evidence on bus tendering
- Empirical studies of rail tendering/franchising
- Overview
- Conclusions
- References
- Performance Evaluation Frameworksa
- Strategic thinking, competitive advantage, and effective performance
- Promoting a holistic framework: STO
- A useful checklist of broad principles for selecting performance measures
- The traditional dimensions of performance evaluation
- Broadening the performance evaluation framework to capture the spirit of STO
- Conclusion
- References
- Privatization in Transport
- Introduction
- Arguments for and against privatization
- Alternative approaches to privatization
- Simple privatization without other means
- Privatization plus regulation
- Privatization plus deregulation
- Franchising
- The success of privatization
- the UK experience
- Conclusions
- References
- Coordination, Integration, and Transport Regulation
- Introduction
- Theoretical perspective on coordination
- Historical perspective on the coordination policy
- Coordination of public transport services
- Conclusion
- References
- Integrated Transport Systems: Public-Private Interfaces
- Transport systems as integrators
- The features of integrated transport systems
- The difficulties and processes of transport system integration
- The involvement of private agents in integrated transport systems: advantages and difficulties
- The instruments for integration and their deployment
- Conclusions
- References
- The History of Transport Planning
- Before mechanical power
- The age of steam
- After the car
- Melbourne case study
- Model applications
- Computing power
- The four-step LUTS
- Further developments
- Problems and solutions
- References
- The Evolution of Transport Networks
- Introduction
- A macroscopic perspective
- Microscopic models
- Conclusions
- References
- Transport and Regional Growth
- Introduction
- Approaches to the analysis of interactions between transport and the economy
- Illustrating the central.