Transportation engineering professor Kara Kockelman recently published the textbook The Economics of Transportation Systems: A Reference for Practitioners.
The book is designed to introduce transportation practitioners to the underlying economic realities of their profession.
It illustrates economic concepts through transportation applications and case studies, covering a wide range of topics, including:
- Transportation costs and benefits
- Transportation pricing
- Regulation and competition
- Location choices, land values, wages, and economic development
- Investment and financing
- Project evaluation
- Economic impact analysis
- Econometric data analysis
There is also a free version which includes lecture notes and slideshows.
Students T. Donna Chen and Brice G. Nichols contributed to the book as well as Katie A. Larsen (MS 2010, PhD 2012), a post-doctoral researcher for The Center for Transportation Research.
