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A Dictionary of Transport Analysis
Edited by Kenneth Button, Henry Vega and Peter Nijkamp
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
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- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- accessibility
- accountancy data and airline finances
- activity-based models
- advanced driver assistance systems
- ageing road users
- agriculture and transport
- air quality
- air traffic control
- aircraft and high-speed train substitution
- airlines
- airport design
- airports
- alternative fuels
- attitudes of the public to transport policy
- automobile history
- back-haul problem
- basic mobility
- benefit–cost analysis (cost–benefit analysis)
- bicycles
- bus lanes
- buses
- climate change and transport
- coastal shipping
- community severance
- company cars
- congestion
- congestion pricing analysis
- congestion pricing practice
- congestion pricing theory
- congestion response behaviour
- containers
- contingent valuation
- cost functions
- costing
- courier, express and parcel industry
- defence logistics
- demand for transport: geographical influences
- demand-responsive transport
- deregulation
- disaggregate models
- discrete choice models
- distribution centres/consolidation depots
- driving licences
- dynamic traffic assignment
- e-commerce
- economic development and transport
- economic regulation
- education in transport
- elasticities of demand for transport
- elderly and transport
- elements of movement
- energy efficiency
- environmental costs
- environmental justice and transport
- environmental standards
- equity issues in transport policy
- European Conference of Ministers of Transport
- European Union transport policy
- external costs of transportation
- externalities
- ferry services
- four-stage traffic modelling
- fourth-party logistics
- fuel efficiency of transport
- gender issues and transport
- generalized cost
- geographical information systems
- globalization
- governance
- governance and transport
- gravity model
- greenhouse gas emissions from transportation
- hazardous materials transportation
- hedonic prices
- high-speed trains/railways
- HOV and HOT lanes
- hub-and-spoke networks
- hybrid engines
- induced travel
- information systems in the United States
- infrastructure
- inland water transport
- integrated ticketing
- integrated transport planning
- intelligent transport systems
- intelligent transport systems evaluation
- intermodal freight transport
- international trade and transport
- International Transport Forum
- investment criteria
- just-in-time distribution
- labour unions and transport
- land use and transportation modelling
- land use planning and transport
- last-mile problem
- leisure time mobility
- licensing
- Lill’s law of travel
- location and transport
- location-based services
- logistics
- low-cost airlines
- marginal social cost pricing practice
- marginal social cost pricing theory
- metro systems
- metropolitan transport planning institutions
- metropolitan transport planning organizations in the United States
- microsimulation models
- mobile emissions
- mobility
- mobility and ageing
- modal split models
- motorcycles
- motorway and freeway history
- multicriteria analysis
- NAFTA transport policy
- networks
- non-motorized travel demand modelling
- packaging
- paratransit
- park-and-ride facilities
- parking
- peak loads
- pedestrian zones
- pedestrians
- privatization
- productivity measurement of transport
- public participation
- public–private partnership
- public transport
- public transport demand
- queuing theory
- railways
- rapid transit
- road accident locations
- road finance
- road maintenance
- roads
- route guidance systems
- routing problems
- rural transport
- safety in transport
- school transport
- seaports
- settlement structures and transport
- shipping conferences
- short sea shipping
- simulation
- slow transport
- social costs of transportation
- space–time prism
- speed limits
- Speed–flow functions
- state departments of transportation in the United States
- stated preference methods
- strategic seaport planning
- subsidies in transport
- supply-chain management
- supply-chains – dynamic
- supply-chains – static
- sustainable transport
- taxation
- taxicabs
- telecommunications and transport
- telecommuting
- telephone surveys
- third-party logistics
- total logistics costs
- tourism and transport
- track costs
- traffic analysis zone
- traffic and health
- traffic and transportation psychology
- traffic and weather
- traffic assignment modelling
- traffic engineering
- traffic management
- traffic noise policy
- trams
- transborder transport
- transhipment
- transponders / automatic equipment identification
- transport demand forecasting
- transport demand models
- transport economics
- transport evaluation
- transport geography
- transport law
- transport network design
- transport planning history
- transport security
- transport statistics
- Transportation Research Board
- travel behaviour modelling
- travel surveys
- travel time budget
- travel time values
- trip distribution models
- trip generation models
- trucking
- tunnels
- University Transportation Centers in the United States
- urban form and transport
- urban logistics
- Wardrop principles
- warehousing
- World Bank and transport
- World Conference on Transport Research
- yield management
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labour unions and transport
Wayne K. Talley
Reference Entry
- Published in print:
- 01 Jan 2010
- Category:
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- Copyright:
- © Kenneth Button, Henry Vega and Peter Nijkamp 2010 2010
Collection:
Economics 2010 and before
Subjects: Economics and Finance, Urban and Regional Studies, Environment, Transport
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or login to access all content.- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- accessibility
- accountancy data and airline finances
- activity-based models
- advanced driver assistance systems
- ageing road users
- agriculture and transport
- air quality
- air traffic control
- aircraft and high-speed train substitution
- airlines
- airport design
- airports
- alternative fuels
- attitudes of the public to transport policy
- automobile history
- back-haul problem
- basic mobility
- benefit–cost analysis (cost–benefit analysis)
- bicycles
- bus lanes
- buses
- climate change and transport
- coastal shipping
- community severance
- company cars
- congestion
- congestion pricing analysis
- congestion pricing practice
- congestion pricing theory
- congestion response behaviour
- containers
- contingent valuation
- cost functions
- costing
- courier, express and parcel industry
- defence logistics
- demand for transport: geographical influences
- demand-responsive transport
- deregulation
- disaggregate models
- discrete choice models
- distribution centres/consolidation depots
- driving licences
- dynamic traffic assignment
- e-commerce
- economic development and transport
- economic regulation
- education in transport
- elasticities of demand for transport
- elderly and transport
- elements of movement
- energy efficiency
- environmental costs
- environmental justice and transport
- environmental standards
- equity issues in transport policy
- European Conference of Ministers of Transport
- European Union transport policy
- external costs of transportation
- externalities
- ferry services
- four-stage traffic modelling
- fourth-party logistics
- fuel efficiency of transport
- gender issues and transport
- generalized cost
- geographical information systems
- globalization
- governance
- governance and transport
- gravity model
- greenhouse gas emissions from transportation
- hazardous materials transportation
- hedonic prices
- high-speed trains/railways
- HOV and HOT lanes
- hub-and-spoke networks
- hybrid engines
- induced travel
- information systems in the United States
- infrastructure
- inland water transport
- integrated ticketing
- integrated transport planning
- intelligent transport systems
- intelligent transport systems evaluation
- intermodal freight transport
- international trade and transport
- International Transport Forum
- investment criteria
- just-in-time distribution
- labour unions and transport
- land use and transportation modelling
- land use planning and transport
- last-mile problem
- leisure time mobility
- licensing
- Lill’s law of travel
- location and transport
- location-based services
- logistics
- low-cost airlines
- marginal social cost pricing practice
- marginal social cost pricing theory
- metro systems
- metropolitan transport planning institutions
- metropolitan transport planning organizations in the United States
- microsimulation models
- mobile emissions
- mobility
- mobility and ageing
- modal split models
- motorcycles
- motorway and freeway history
- multicriteria analysis
- NAFTA transport policy
- networks
- non-motorized travel demand modelling
- packaging
- paratransit
- park-and-ride facilities
- parking
- peak loads
- pedestrian zones
- pedestrians
- privatization
- productivity measurement of transport
- public participation
- public–private partnership
- public transport
- public transport demand
- queuing theory
- railways
- rapid transit
- road accident locations
- road finance
- road maintenance
- roads
- route guidance systems
- routing problems
- rural transport
- safety in transport
- school transport
- seaports
- settlement structures and transport
- shipping conferences
- short sea shipping
- simulation
- slow transport
- social costs of transportation
- space–time prism
- speed limits
- Speed–flow functions
- state departments of transportation in the United States
- stated preference methods
- strategic seaport planning
- subsidies in transport
- supply-chain management
- supply-chains – dynamic
- supply-chains – static
- sustainable transport
- taxation
- taxicabs
- telecommunications and transport
- telecommuting
- telephone surveys
- third-party logistics
- total logistics costs
- tourism and transport
- track costs
- traffic analysis zone
- traffic and health
- traffic and transportation psychology
- traffic and weather
- traffic assignment modelling
- traffic engineering
- traffic management
- traffic noise policy
- trams
- transborder transport
- transhipment
- transponders / automatic equipment identification
- transport demand forecasting
- transport demand models
- transport economics
- transport evaluation
- transport geography
- transport law
- transport network design
- transport planning history
- transport security
- transport statistics
- Transportation Research Board
- travel behaviour modelling
- travel surveys
- travel time budget
- travel time values
- trip distribution models
- trip generation models
- trucking
- tunnels
- University Transportation Centers in the United States
- urban form and transport
- urban logistics
- Wardrop principles
- warehousing
- World Bank and transport
- World Conference on Transport Research
- yield management