Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy: A Handbook in Honor of John R. Meyer - Softcover

Meyer, John R.; Tye, W. B.; Winston, Clifford; Tye, William B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815731817 ISBN 13: 9780815731818

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 1999

Synopsis

This comprehensive survey of transportation economic policy pays homage to a classic work, Techniques of Transportation Planning, by renowned transportation scholar John R. Meyer. With contributions from leading economists in the field, it includes added emphasis on policy developments and analysis. The book covers the basic analytic methods used in transportation economics and policy analysis; focuses on the automobile, as both the mainstay of American transportation and the source of some of its most serious difficulties; covers key issues of urban public transportation; and analyzes the impact of regulation and deregulation on the U.S. airline, railroad, and trucking industries. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Alan A. Altshuler, Harvard University; Ronald R. Braeutigam, Northwestern University; Robert E. Gallamore, Union Pacific Railroad; Arnold M. Howitt, Harvard University; Gregory K. Ingram, The Wold Bank; John F. Kain, University of Texas at Dallas; Charles Lave, University of California, Irvine; Lester Lave, Carnegie Mellon University; Robert A. Leone, Boston University; Zhi Liu, The World Bank; Herbert Mohring, University of Minnesota; Steven A. Morrison, Northeastern University; Katherine M. O'Regan, Yale University; Don Pickrell, U.S. Department of Transportation; John M. Quigley, University of California, Berkeley; Ian Savage, Northwestern University; and Kenneth A. Small, University of California Irvine.

About this title

About the Author:

José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, professor of public policy and urban planning at Harvard University, is coauthor of Going Private: The International Experience with Transport Privatization (Brookings, 1994). William B. Tye is a principal at the Brattle Group. Clifford Winston is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Among his previous books are Deregulation of Network Industries: What's Next? coedited with Sam Peltzman (AEI-Brookings, 2000), and Alternate Route: Toward Efficient Urban Transportation, cowritten with Chad Shirley (Brookings, 1998).

Review:

"For those who teach courses on any of the topics in this 'Handbook', this may be the most useful collection of essays available. The necessary economics background may exceed that of many average urban planning or public policy students, but this gives the instructor something to do. How wonderful it is to have so much good material under one cover!" —Peter Gordon, University of Southern California, APA Journal, vol. 66, no.1, 1/1/2000

About this edition

• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0815731817
• ISBN 13: 9780815731818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 583
• Editor: Gomez-Ibanez Jose A.