OVERVIEW

The course provides students with the most significant themes and current discipline, which introduces the distance variable in the study of the functioning of the economic system, and analyzes the emergence of economic laws in the transportation and relationships between transport and the rest of the economic system .

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course provides the specificity of the sector and its contribution to general economic theory, knowledge of the distinctive features of the various transport modes and forms of integration and competition in the markets in which companies operate and the economic policies that guide sector.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures, individual research and group optionally

Present on AulaWeb

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Introduction: transport, economy, society

Part I: the transportation economics, demand, costs; signs on the economy of infrastructure and planning issues; organization of the market, competition, oligopoly, monopoly pricing; the regulation of markets

Part II: transport sectors - transport of freight and passenger transport; complex cycles; modal choices, modality and unitization; maritime transport and ports; air transport and airports; road transport; rail transport; transport pipelines;

Part III: balance between public intervention and market, market failures, externalities and natural monopolies, liberalization and privatization, guidelines of the Italian and European transport policy

Part IV: transport and space economy - transport, formation of cities, urban and regional development; transport and industrialization; transport and globalization; new scenarios and new problems of transport economics

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

They will be communicated at the beginning of lessons and simultaneously published on AulaWeb, along with the slides used during lectures

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ENRICO MUSSO (President)

CLAUDIA BURLANDO

HILDA GHIARA

LESSONS

LESSONS START

2° Semester

Class schedule

TRANSPORT ECONOMICS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

written and oral exam

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

Students are invited to register to the AulaWeb page to gain access to the classroom materials and other information.