EconS 426

Transportation Economics

Class Materials

 

Lectures:

  1. Introduction
  2. The Demand for Transportation
  3. The Demand for Transportation (Cont): Disaggregate Models (Part 1)
  4. Disaggregate Models (Part 2)
  5. Costs of Transportation - Part 1
  6. Costs of Transportation - Examples
  7. Costs of Transportation - Part 2
  8. Pricing - Part 1 updated 2-28-08
  9. Pricing - Part 2 (Congestion Pricing) updated 3-06-08
  10. Investment updated 3-25-08
  11. Regulatory Issues in Transportation -- updated 4-15-08
  12. Airline Evolution -- This paper is for Friday, 4/18/08 discussion

 

Problem Sets and Data files (txt)

  1. Problem Set 1 -- due Feb. 15 (4pm)
    1. Freight Demand
    2. Route Occupancy
  2. Problem Set 2 -- due April 4 (4pm)
    1. Data text file
  3. Problem Set 3 -- due April 25

 

 

 

 

Supplementary Reading

  1. Aggregate Passenger Travel Demand
  2. Aggregate Freight Travel Demand Model
  3. Value of Time article downloaded from Science Direct
  4. Cost of Multiproduct Firms
  5. Costs of Air Pollution from Motor Vehicles
  6. Using Revenue from Congestion Pricing
  7. London Congestion Charge?
  8. Price Cap Risk -- posted 4-08-08
  9. Airport Regulation -- posted 4-08-08

 

If you have trouble downloading any of these files Email me (kdupin@wsu.edu) and I will send them to you.

 

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