Transport Economics and Finance

Host University

University of Virginia

Semester

Fall 2022

Course Number

CE 6470

Discipline

Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

Instructor

Tong Chen

Course Information

Economic theory and applications enhance transport demand analysis, transport pricing, welfare considerations and policy evaluation. This course illustrates the fundamentals of transport economics (costs, benefits and pricing), describes key factors that affect these (movement and location choice), and introduces different methods of economic analysis for quantifying the trends in and interactions across these topics.

Prerequisites

CE 6410