Transportation Economics/About

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This book is aimed at graduate civil engineering, planning, business, and economics students, though the material may provide a useful review for practitioners. While incorporating theory, there is a very applied bent to the course, all of the ideas are intended to help inform the real decisions that are made (or should be made) in practice.

The book takes two core ideas

1. Individuals (firms, agencies, agents, actors) behave according to incentives provided by their environment.

2. The environment is shaped by the collective behavior of individuals.

Each page is roughly the notes from one ninety-minute lecture.

[edit] Authors

Authors of this book include David Levinson, David Gillen, and others ...