Pricing in Road Transport: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845428609 ISBN 13: 9781845428600

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a mono-disciplinary perspective. This book shows how a multi-disciplinary approach may lead to new types of analysis and insights, contributing to a better understanding of the intricacies of transport pricing and eventually to a potentially more effective and acceptable design of such policies. The study addresses important policy and research themes such as the possible motives for introducing road transport pricing and potential conflicts between these motives, behavioural responses to transport pricing for households and firms, the modelling of transport pricing, and the acceptability of pricing.

Studying road transport pricing from a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book will be of great interest to transport policymakers and advisors, transport academics and consultants and students in transport studies.

About this title

About the Author

Edited by Erik Verhoef, Professor of Spatial Economics, Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Michiel C.J. Bliemer, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney, Australia, Linda Steg, University of Groningen and Bert van Wee, Professor of Transport Policy, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1845428609
• ISBN 13: 9781845428600
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Verhoef Erik, Bliemer Michiel C.J., Steg Linda, Van Wee Bert