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| About the Author | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Table of Contents | |
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| Presentation | |
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| Transport production and cost structure | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Transport production | |
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| Product and Technology | |
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| The simple cyclical system | |
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| The three nodes system | |
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| Scale economies | |
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| Transport cost functions: the theory | |
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| Basic definitions and properties | |
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| Scale and scope in transport production | |
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| The conditional and global cost functions: the role of flows and network | |
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| Transport cost functions: the empirical work | |
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| Transport output and the estimation of cost functions | |
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| Functional form | |
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| Output aggregates | |
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| Marginal costs, elasticities and scale from aggregates | |
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| Economies of density and economies of network size | |
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| Spatial scope from aggregates | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Travel Demand and Value of Time | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Discrete choices in travel demand | |
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| General approach | |
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| The discrete choice framework: quality and income | |
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| The goods/leisure framework | |
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| Extensions | |
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| Time allocation: a framework for the analysis of time value | |
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| Theories | |
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| Discussion | |
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| A unified travel-activities model | |
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| The approach | |
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| The formulation | |
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| Estimation and values of time | |
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| Discrete travel choices | |
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| Comments | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Valuation of users' benefits in transport systems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Traditional approaches | |
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| The Marshallian consumer's surplus | |
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| The rule-of-a-half | |
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| Back to the drawing board | |
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| The neo-classical approach: Basics | |
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| The compensating and equivalent variations | |
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| Linking consumer's surplus with equivalent and compensating variations | |
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| Users' benefits from qualitative changes | |
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| Income effect in the estimation of users' benefits | |
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| Derived nature of transport demand and economic benefits | |
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| Social benefits from transport projects | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Optimal Transport Pricing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Optimal pricing in the single output case | |
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| Extension to transport systems | |
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| A general optimal price | |
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| Particular case 1: Private transport | |
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| Particular case 2: Public transport | |
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| Optimal fares with multiple outputs | |
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| General solutions | |
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| Applications using the Logit model | |
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| Role of individuals' sensitivity to price and quality | |
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| Synthesis and discussion | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |