Course Name: CE6860 : Transportation Economics

Description: Economic significance of transport? Demand for transport - Influencing factors, temporal and spatial variations, elasticity of demand? Supply of transport services - development of systems supply function? Transport costs - Long-run and short-run costs, fixed and variable costs, and marginal costs? Pricing of transport services? Road user costs - vehicle operating costs, cost of travel time, and accident costs? Evaluation of transport projects, Methods of evaluation - Cost-benefit ratio, first year rate of return, net present value, and internalrate of return methods? Indirect costs and benefits of transport projects? Financial aspects of transport projects.

Slot: B

RoomNo: BSB237

Instructor: Gitakrishnan Ramadurai

Period: JAN-MAY 2013

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