The current focus of transportation policy around disruptive events is to adopt an engineering resilience-oriented approach, which focuses on returning assets to good workable order as soon as possible. This will remain critically important in the future to reduce the scale and severity of...

The current focus of transportation policy around disruptive events is to adopt an engineering resilience-oriented approach, which focuses on returning assets to good workable order as soon as possible. This will remain critically important in the future to reduce the scale and severity of...

Contents: Foreword by Andrea Camanzi -- Preface -- Part I: Background -- 1. The role of benchmarking in efficiency-enhancing strategies / Chris Nash and Ginevra Bruzzone -- 2. Methodology / Andrew Smith, Giovanni Fraquelli and Carlo Cambini -- 3. The issue of data / Ginevra Bruzzone and Chris...

Transport economics and policy analysis is a field which has seen major advances in methodology in recent decades. The transport sector has many unique characteristics - non-storability, economies of scale and scope, indivisibilities and the extensive production of positive and negative...