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 ...

The paper, titled "Downs's Law under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled," employs innovative theoretical economic models, and investigates both the direct and ...

Aaron J. Gellman, a transportation scholar, aviation expert and former director of the Northwestern University Transportation Center, died Monday (Jan. 11) at age 85. In demand by the government, ...

From the land of the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) soon will come further sacrifice of transportation economics to environmentalist fancy. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) must adopt ...

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, ...