Transport Infrastructure in Time, Scope and Scale

An Economic History and Evolutionary Perspective
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-79053-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 121 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 1824 g

This book discusses the economics of transport infrastructure and the economic theorizing around transport infrastructure from 1850 to today. Transport infrastructure systems are continuously evolving over time. Since the mid-1800s these systems have grown in complexity and outreach. They have been important drivers of economic development but have also been important as economic agents in themselves. Over time transport infrastructure systems have taken on different functions as providers of simpler transport services or more developed value chain components. Transport infrastructure has also been a source for different arguments about economic theory and practice. 
Transport infrastructure systems are analysed from an institutional perspective where the long-term development of the ownership and financing of the systems, as well as the connection to different policy areas are elaborated. A longitudinal study of Sweden’s transport infrastructurepolicy is used to exemplify driving factors causing change and transformation of the systems over time with different scale and scope.  

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hasselgren, Björn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Transport- und Verkehrswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- 1. Government ownership of roads and railroads – why? 2. Theoretical background.- 3. Economic Theory and Transport Infrastructure.- 4. Planning and Coordination of Transport Infrastructure.- 5. Sweden’s Transport Infrastructure History—Coevolution
and Conflict.- 6. Concluding Remarks.

Über Autor(innen)

Björn Hasselgren is a guest researcher in the Economic History Department of Uppsala University, Sweden and has a PhD in planning and decision analysis from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has extensive experience from senior positions in the transport infrastructure sector and the Sveriges Riksbank.