Recent years have seen considerable changes in the technology of transportation with the development of high-speed rail networks, more fuel-efficient automobiles and aircraft, and the widespread adoption of informatics in disciplines such as traffic management and supply chain logistics. The...

Contents: Introduction / Matthias Finger and Kenneth Button -- Part I: Country and regional reports -- 2. Airline liberalization in the US / James Peoples -- 3. Airline deregulation in Canada and the sustainability of competition / David Gillen and William G. Morrison -- 4. Australia - a...

Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The scale and nature of the terrorist problem -- 3. Some basic economics of transportation security -- 4. Links between market structure and security -- 5. The economic instruments of security policy -- 6. Security and air transportation -- 7. The economics of...

This biography of the English applied economist, Arthur (A.J.) Brown, sets his work from the 1930s to the 1980s in the context of the Great Depression, the emergence of Oxford University as a centre of applied economic research, the contraction of British colonialism in Africa, the enlarging of...

With the global expansion of urbanization there is a need to ensure that cities develop in a way that allows all residents to benefit from urban life. This volume contains a collection of classic and more recent papers that provide insight into the problems encountered in urbanization and the...

The field of globalization and transport has witnessed a surge in interest over the past two decades with scholars questioning the reasoning behind its growth, its impact on the environment and trade as well as its effect on the development of cities and supply chain logistics. The editors have...

This concise and clearly focused Dictionary, with contributions by the leading authorities in their fields, brings order and clarity to a topic that can suffer from confusion over terminology and concepts. It provides a bridge between the academic disciplines involved and illustrates the...