The World Bank urban transport strategy review, “Cities on the Move” analyzed urban transport problems in developing and transitional economies and articulated a proposed strategy framework for national and city governments. This paper describes how the urban transport problems of the...

This paper is based on a study to provide the European Commission recommendations on the priorities for research and development in transport technologies and other related areas in technologies. The paper provides a synthesis of the findings of five studies and elucates the interactions between...

In 1983 Douglas Needham's "The Economics and Politics of Regulation" propounded the dynamic nature of the regulatory phenomenon in a world of uncertainty, change and multiple, often conflicting, economic interests. The book's publication coincided with the early years of transport deregulation...

This paper reviews the development of thought on the major issues in transit economics over the last 50 years, in developed and developing countries. Some issues - the analysis of cost and demand parameters - are perennial, with development mostly in the mathematical sophistication of analytical...