Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy

<DIV><P>This comprehensive survey of transportation economic policy pays homage to a classic work Techniques of Transportation Planning by renowned transportation scholar John R. Meyer. With contributions from leading economists in the field it includes added emphasis on policy developments and analysis. The book covers the basic analytic methods used in transportation economics and policy analysis; focuses on the automobile as both the mainstay of American transportation and the source of some of its most serious difficulties; covers key issues of urban public transportation; and analyzes the impact of regulation and deregulation on the U.S. airline railroad and trucking industries. In addition to the editors the contributors are Alan A. Altshuler Harvard University; Ronald R. Braeutigam Northwestern University; Robert E. Gallamore Union Pacific Railroad; Arnold M. Howitt Harvard University; Gregory K. Ingram The Wold Bank; John F. Kain University of Texas at Dallas; Charles Lave University of California Irvine; Lester Lave Carnegie Mellon University; Robert A. Leone Boston University; Zhi Liu The World Bank; Herbert Mohring University of Minnesota; Steven A. Morrison Northeastern University; Katherine M. O'Regan Yale University; Don Pickrell U.S. Department of Transportation; John M. Quigley University of California Berkeley; Ian Savage Northwestern University; and Kenneth A. Small University of California Irvine.</P></DIV>