Transportation Economics

Lecturer: Etienne B. de Villemeur
E-mail : Etienne.Devillemeur@univ-tlse1.fr

Secretary: Mme Hornero & Mme Garcia Carro
E-mail : chantal.hornero@univ-tlse1.fr & christine.garcia-carro@univ-tlse1.fr

Lecture Notes

• Outline of the lectures
• Discrete choice models
• Value of time
• Traffic forecast
• Costs of time and congestion
• Quality of infrastructures and costs
• Measuring externalities
• Theory of public goods
• Theory of second-best
• Competition à la Hotelling
• The monocentric city
• The Starret model
• References

Problems' Set:

• A dilemna in transportation economics
• Aggregation bias in the logit model
• Elasticities in the Logit Model in the Presence of Congestion
• Congestion, Equilibrium & Optimum

Exams of previous years

• Value of time and competition across transportation modes (December 2000)
• Regulation in the air: a first analysis (December 2001)
• Some issues of rail transportation (December 2002)
• Localisation and Transportation Tariffs (December 2003)
• A new look at Hub and Spokes (December 2004)
• Congestion, Road Charges and Investments (December 2005)