In this Chapter we describe the development of Amsterdam Metropolitan Housing Market over the years. We start-off with a discussion of the historical development of Amsterdam and its suburban areas. There we address how main contextual factors like wars, financial crises and prosperity have...

Lowering speed of car drivers will have positive impacts on environmental pollution and the number of road accidents. It is therefore a potentially interesting policy option for governments which want to reduce negative externalities of transport. In this paper the acceptance of such polities is...

Markets for transport are often characterized by unequal demand in both directions: every moming during peak hour the trams are crowded while moving into the direction of the large cities, whereas they may be almost empty into the other direction. A similar pattem often exists for freight flows....