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1948- III. Tye, W. B. ) IV. 48-1984. Editing by Martha V. R. Donnelly & Sons, Harrisonburg, Virginia Page v CONTENTS 1 The Legacy of John R. Meyer JOSÉ A. GÓMEZ-IBÁÑEZ, WILLIAM B. TYE, AND CLIFFORD WINSTON 1 Part I Techniques of Transportation Analysis 2 The Demand for Transportation: Models and Applications KENNETH A. SMALL AND CLIFFORD WINSTON 11 3 Learning about Transport Costs RONALD R. BRAEUTIGAM 57 4 Pricing JOSÉ A. GÓMEZ-IBÁÑEZ 99 5 Project Evaluation KENNETH A. SMALL 137 Part II The Automobile in Society 6 Congestion HERBERT MOHRING 181 7 The Politics of Controlling Auto Air Pollution ARNOLD M.

Meyer and his coauthors examined this question systematically by looking first at the trends in land use and travel patterns and then at the comparative costs of different modesauto, bus, and rail transitin serving different types of urban commuting corridors. Their analysis quantified the extent to which businesses and residences were suburbanizing and the implications for traffic flows. In a pathbreaking chapter, they showed how racial discrimination in housing markets caused longer trips for minority households than for white households and how minority households were unlikely to be well served by suburban extensions of rail transit systems.

Interpretations or conclusions in Brookings publications should be understood to be solely those of the authors. C. 20036 All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data Essays in transportation economics and policy : a handbook in honor of John R. Meyer / edited by José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, William B. Tye, and Clifford Winston. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8157-3182-5 (acid-free paper) ISBN 0-8157-3181-7 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 1. Transportation and state.

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