Urban Transportation Financing : : Theory and Policy in Ontario / / Mark w. Frankena.
This is an economic analysis of pricing and subsidy policies for urban roads and urban public transit in Ontario. Professor Frankena demonstrates the benefits of evaluating the economic merits of policy alternatives, and attempts to determine whether existing policies waste resources or lead to unde...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Road pricing policies
- 3. Transit fare policies: central issues
- 4. Transit fare policies: additional issues
- 5. The justification for transit subsidies
- 6. Historical transit subsidies in Ontario
- 7. Effects of transit subsidies
- 8. How subsidies can affect service, fares, and ridership
- 9. Subsidies and transit trends in Ontario
- 10. An econometric model of subsidy effects in Ontario
- 11. Implications for public policy
- APPENDIX A. Distributional effects of road pricing
- APPENDIX B. Second-best pricing of public transit with unpriced automobile congestion
- APPENDIX C. Efficiency of alternative transit objectives and subsidy formulas
- APPENDIX D. Glossary of variables
- Bibliography
- Ontario Economic Council Research Studies