Transport economics is an applied field that scrutinises the interplay between economic theories and the unique characteristics of transportation systems. It investigates how costs, prices, market ...

Yes, Patrick T. Harker is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, playing a major role in shaping the country’s monetary policies. But Harker began his career as an engineer, and ...

Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Vol. 50, No. 1 (January 2016), pp. 1-20 (20 pages) In recent years, operating subsidies in the USA increased considerably in response to public concerns over ...

To the University of Chicago’s Richard Hornbeck, transportation infrastructure does far more than speed up the movement of goods. It can reshape economic activity and deliver growth that traditional ...

For 81 years, the Harry W. Nice Memorial/Senator Thomas “Mac” Middleton Bridge has provided a crucial highway link between Southern Maryland and Virginia. But the two-lane Potomac River crossing on ...

Offered by the Economics Department of Rutgers-Newark, this program prepares students for scholarly research and teaching. Primary areas of interest are labor, gender and migration economics, ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Tonight I got TPM Reader HH’s deep, deep dive into the economics of Uber and some interesting questions about whether it’s current valuation makes sense in anything that looks like established ...