The study of transportation involves researchers trained in many disciplines, including
engineering, economics, geography, planning, business, and regional science …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on what has traditionally been considered as the
“core” infrastructure sectors, which enhance the productivity of physical capital and land …

Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says the author in this no-
holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be. Free parking, the author argues, has …

In the late 1980s, David Aschauer (1989) triggered a long overdue dialogue among
economists and political leaders when he published a study arguing that much of the …

ECONOMISTS TRY not to be faddists but they often cannot help themselves. While work on
a topic should mirror the prospective importance of the topic, that situation seems to occur …

This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to
private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public …

Does the positive correlation between infrastructure and productivity reflect causation? If so,
in which direction? I find that when growth in roads (the largest component of infrastructure) …

A major concern of all decision makers has been to ensure that there are clear benefits from
transport investment proposals. The travel time savings are clear, but the wider economic …

Changing fuel prices and new energy policy initiatives have heightened interest in the
appropriate level of gasoline taxation. These taxes vary dramatically across countries …

This paper discusses the nature, and magnitude, of externalities associated with automobile
use, including local and global pollution, oil dependence, traffic congestion and traffic …