Urban and Regional Studies
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Economic Growth, Inequality and Migration
Edited by Amnon Levy, João R. Faria
During the growth process inequality may rise or decline, and the change in the level of inequality may, in turn, affect growth. An increase in inequality in one place and better prospects of growth and earnings elsewhere can trigger mig... -
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Financing Transportation Networks
David M. Levinson
Pollution, alternative fuels, congestion, intelligent transportation systems, and the shift from construction to maintenance all call for a reconsideration of the existing highway revenue mechanisms, especially the gas tax. David Levinso...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Entrepreneurs and the Transformation of the Global Economy
Anthony Patrick Ellison
Anthony Ellison cuts through conventional neo-classical interpretations to expose the indispensable contribution of entrepreneurs in driving the market process and, in particular, in accomplishing the deregulation of the transportation, ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Travel Behaviour
Edited by Eliahu Stern, IIan Salomon, Piet H.L. Bovy
Travel Behaviour is a challenging and original volume, adding to the growing literature focusing on understanding transportation systems. The book capitalises on actual scientific and applied developments in Europe, the importance of EC ... -
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Transportation Networks and the Optimal Location of Human Activities
Isabelle Thomas
The relationship between the shape of transportation networks and the optimal locations and allocations of human activities is examined in this unique volume. -
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Reforming Transport Pricing in the European Union
Edited by Bruno De Borger, Stef Proost
This timely book deals with the problem of pricing passenger and freight transportation within Europe. The contributors argue that current legislation affecting pricing and regulation is increasingly less successful in dealing with marke...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Analytical Transport Economics
Edited by Jacob B. Polak, Arnold Heertje
Analytical Transport Economics opens with a critical examination and overview of the scope of transport economics. Next, the production of transport, travel demand, transport externalities and transport markets are thoroughly analysed. T... -
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Transport and Environment
Edited by Eran Feitelson, Erik Verhoef
The impact of transport on the environment is a major issue of worldwide concern. This important new book presents state-of-the-art contributions on spatial and technological aspects of transport in relation to environmental degradation,...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Reform in Japan
Edited by Craig Freedman
While many Western economists forcefully urge the Japanese to become more like the US, there are other academics who have registered strong reservations to such a simplistic solution. In this volume, noted scholars take opposing position...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Environmental Costs and Liberalization in European Air Transport
Youdi Schipper
With air transport becoming an increasingly vital part of the economy, the regulatory reform of this market has been a major development in European political economy. This book focuses on two market failures within the airline industry ... -
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International Trade and Transport
Karl W. Steininger
Karl Steininger also expands spatial analysis to cover spatial preferences and spatial discounting and catalogues the result of spatial production structure and environmental quality in a global economy. Finally, an empirical account is ... -
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Contemporary Minority Migration, Education and Ethnicity in China
Robyn Iredale, Naren Bilik, Wang Su, Fei Guo, Caroline Hoy
Rural–urban migration is an important aspect in the development of countries. Until the late 1980s China was one of the few countries that controlled population movement both directly and indirectly through policies of economic and socia...