Handbook of Transport Strategy, Policy & Institutions

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In 46 chapters by acknowledged experts on their topics, these and other aspects of transport policy and planning are addressed in this, the sixth Handbook in Transport. The work is organised into sections covering:

• Institutional Settings and Markets
• Planning Perspectives
• Asset Management and Funding
• Regulatory Issues
• Evaluation Frameworks
• National Studies

• the collection of data (and its transformation into information)
• the formation of policy objectives by government (at all its different levels)
• the establishment of institutional structures to attain these goals
• the resourcing of these institutions
• the implementation of actions
• the policing and monitoring of outcomes.

Contents

• Introduction. (K.J. Button, D.A. Hensher). Market and Government Failures in Transportation. (K.J. Button).
• Regulatory Transitions. (W.B. Tye).
• Economic Deregulation in the USA. (R.J. Windle).
• Tendering of Services. (J. Preston).
• Performance Evaluation Frameworks. (D.A. Hensher).
• Privatization in Transport. (C. Nash).
• Coordination, Integration, and Transport Regulation. (D.M. Van de Velde).
• Integrated Transport Systems: Public-Private Interfaces. (J.M. Viegas).
• The History of Transport Planning. (M.G. Lay).
• The Evolution of Transport Networks. (D. Levinson).
• Transport and Regional Growth. (C. Jensen-Butler, B. Madsen).
• Infrastructure Policy. (R. Vickerman).
• Integrated Transport Strategies. (A.D. May, C. Kelly, S. Shepherd).
• Long-term Planning. (E. Weiner, E.S. Riklin).
• Transportation Asset Management. (O.J. Stalebrink, J.L. Gifford).
• Financing Transport Infrastructure. (R. Maggi).
• A Banking Perspective on Transport. (N. Hann, T. Mack).
• Financial Analysis: Applications to Australian Toll Road Entities. (S. Jones).
• Financing Transport Infrastructure: Public Finance Issues. (P. Abelson).
• The World Bank and Transport. (K. Gwilliam).
• Asset Management and Funding: Transport and Non-profit Institutions. (J.H. Miller, J. Hough).
• Deregulation of US Air Transportation. (S.A. Morrison).
• Regulatory Issues: The Role of International Maritime Institutions. (W.K. Talley).
• Fostering Inland Waterways. (J.B. Polak).
• Making Pricing Work in Public Transport Provision. (S.R. Jara-Díaz, A. Gschwender).
• Transportation Mergers: The Case of the US Railroads. (W.B. Tye, J. Horn).
• Protecting the Captive Railroad Shipper. (K. Vachal, J. Bitzan).
• Cost-benefit Analysis. (K.G. Willis).
• Multicriteria Evaluation of Transport Policies. (R. Vreeker, P. Nijkamp).
• Negotiated and Competitively Tendered Performance Based Contracts. (E. Houghton, D.A. Hensher).
• Discriminant, Logit, and Neural Network Models for Measuring Financial Fitness: Application to the US Airline Industry. (R.D. Gritta).
• Voluntary Travel Behavior Change. (P.R. Stopher).
• Non-motorized Transportation Policy. (M. Page).
• Flexible Transport Systems. (J.L. Gifford).
• Stimulating Modal Shift. (P. Bonsall).
• Marketing Public Transport. (G. Giuliano, S. Hayden).
• Implementing Intelligent Transportation Systems. (B. Bensen).
• Optimization of Transport Strategies. (A.D. May, S. Shepherd, G. Emberger).
• Transport Policy within APEC. (C. Findlay, C. Kissling).
• Transport Policy in the European Union. (P. Van Reeven).
• Transport Policy in Post-Communist Europe. (J. Pucher, Ralph Buehler).
• Transport Policies in ASEAN Countries. (A.T.H. Chin).
• Transportation Policy in the USA. (E. Weiner).
• Transportation Policy in Canada. (T. Heaver, W.G. Waters).
• Transportation Policy in New Zealand and Australia. (D. Scrafton).