Acknowledgements

Introduction

Kenneth Button

Roger Stough

PART I POLICY OBJECTIVES

Political Economy of a Public Corporation: Pricing Objectives of BART

Robert Cooter

Gregory Topakian

Institutions and Objectives in Transport Policy

K.M. Gwilliam

Theories of Regulation and the Deregulation Movement

Theodore E. Keeler

Transport Co-ordination: Meaning and Purpose

G. Shorey Peterson

Management Objectives, Fares and Service Levels in Bus Transport

C.A. Nash

Priorities in Urban Transport Research

Ralph Gakenheimer

William C. Wheaton

Personal Security as a Transport Issue: A State-of-the-Art Review

S.T. Atkins

Concept of Transportation Need Revisited

K.C. Koutsopoulos

PART II POLICY OPTIONS

Free Public Transport

Herbert J. Baum

The `Rule of Three': A Possible Solution to the Political Problem of Competing Objectives for Road Pricing

P.B. Goodwin

Alternative Tendering Systems and Deregulation in Britain

Peter White

Stephen Tough

How to Franchise Highways

Gordon J. Fielding

Daniel B. Klein

PART III POLICY ANALYSIS

Downtown Auto Restraint Policies: The Costs and Benefits for Boston

Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez

Gary R. Fauth

Efficient Transportation Infrastructure Policy

Clifford Winston

Benefit--Cost Rules for Urban Transit Subsidies: An Integration of Allocational, Distributional and Public Finance Issues

J.S. Dodgson

N. Topham

Factors Affecting European Privatization and Deregulation Policies in Local Public Transport: The Evidence from Scandinavia

Bjorn Andersen

The Case for a Public Road Authority

David Newbery

Infrastructure Restoration as a Tool for Stimulating Urban Renewal--The Glasgow Canal

Kenneth J. Button

David W. Pearce

Privatizing and Deregulating Local Public Services: Lessons from Britain's Buses

Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez

John R. Meyer

Profitability and Product Quality: Economic Determinants of Airline Safety Performance

Nancy L. Rose

Deconstructing Transport Planning: Lessons from Policy Breakdown in the English Pennines

Tim Richardson

Russ Haywood

PART IV POLICY IMPLEMENTATION

A Overall Policy Assessments

Mrs. Castle's Transport Policy

D.L. Munby

Transport Policy in the United Kingdom: A Critique of the 1977 White Paper

M.E. Beesley

K.M. Gwilliam

German Transport Policy After Reunification

Matthias Wissmann

Restructuring Land Transport in New Zealand

Gordon J. Fielding

Douglas C. Johnston

The Regulation of Transport Markets

Kenneth J. Button

Theodore E. Keeler

Transport Planning and Operation in a Changing Economic and Political Environment: The Case of Hungary

Roger Mackett

The Road to Ruin?: Impacts of Economic Shock Therapy on Urban Transport in Poland

John Pucher

B Issue Studies

Transport for the Disabled

Disability and Transport: A Review of the Personal Costs of Disability in Relation to Transport

Philip R. Oxley

Michael J. Richards

Environment

Policy Innovations of the US Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act and Clean Air Act Amendments

William M. Lyons

Policies to Reduce CO2 Emissions from Cars in Europe: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis

Gert Jan Koopman

Safety

The Value of Transport Safety

M.W. Jones-Lee

Finance

Flat Versus Differentiated Transit Pricing: What's A Fair Fare?

Robert Cervero

Automobile Subsidies and Land Use: Estimates and Policy Responses

Mark E. Hanson

Who Benefits from Transit Subsidies? Recent Evidence from Six Metropolitan Areas

John Pucher

Appraisal

Estimating the Social Benefit of Constructing an Underground Railway in London

C.D. Foster

M.E. Beesley

Development

Measuring the Benefits of a Large Public Investment: The Case of the U.S. Federal-Aid Highway System

Theodore E. Keeler

John S. Ying

Is Public Expenditure Productive?

David Alan Aschauer

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