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9780815793823

Alternate Route Toward Efficient Urban Transportation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780815793823

  • ISBN10:

    0815793820

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-09-01
  • Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
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Summary

This book develops an alternative solution to urban transportation problems based on economic analysis of public and private sector capabilities, concluding that public officials should take the next step and allow the private sector to play a leading role in the provision of urban transportation.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction and Overview
1(20)
2 The Urban Transit Operating and Institutional Environment
21(8)
3 Travelers' Preferences for Urban Transportation
29(19)
4 The Economic Effects of Net-Benefit Maximization
48(20)
5 Sources of Inefficiencies
68(21)
6 An Alternative Route: Privatization
89(18)
7 Conclusion
107(2)
Appendix A: Average Automobile Speeds 109(2)
Appendix B: Means for Modal Attributes, by Commuting Distance 111(6)
Appendix C: Parameter Estimates of Rail Attribute Equations 117(4)
Appendix D: Sources of the Welfare Loss from Transit, Based on Generalized Least Squares Estimation 121(2)
Index 123

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