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Concepts of transportation economics / Barry E. Prentice, Darren Prokop.

By: Prentice, Barry E [author.]Contributor(s): Prokop, Darren [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Jersey : World Scientific, 2015Description: 275 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789814656160 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Transportation | Transportation and state | Transport | TransportDDC classification: 388'.049 Summary: Transportation is the world's largest invisible industry. Modern society is completely dependent on transportation to sustain its way of life, and it is all around us constantly. Yet the economics of transportation is a mystery to most people. Why do air fares rise and fall? Why do urban transit systems struggle to survive and require such large public subsidies? Why does freight transport cost more to move in one direction than an equal distance in another? Why is government so heavily involved in transportation? This book provides explanations to these queries and many more.
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Transportation is the world's largest invisible industry. Modern society is completely dependent on transportation to sustain its way of life, and it is all around us constantly. Yet the economics of transportation is a mystery to most people. Why do air fares rise and fall? Why do urban transit systems struggle to survive and require such large public subsidies? Why does freight transport cost more to move in one direction than an equal distance in another? Why is government so heavily involved in transportation? This book provides explanations to these queries and many more.

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