Alternate route : toward efficient urban transportation /

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Author / Creator:Winston, Clifford, 1951-
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c1998.
Description:ix, 126 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3431306
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Other authors / contributors:Shirley, Chad.
ISBN:0815793820 (cloth : alk. paper)
0815793812 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction and Overview
  • 2. The Urban Transit Operating and Institutional Environment
  • 3. Travelers' Preferences for Urban Transportation
  • 4. The Economic Effects of Net-Benefit Maximization
  • 5. Sources of Inefficiencies
  • 6. An Alternative Route: Privatization
  • 7. Conclusion
  • App. A. Average Automobile Speeds
  • App. B. Means for Modal Attributes, by Commuting Distance
  • App. C. Parameter Estimates of Rail Attribute Equations
  • App. D. Sources of the Welfare Loss from Transit, Based on Generalized Least Squares Estimation.