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Transportation Economics

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
  • Course Goals
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    An introduction of transportation economics and transportation economics definitions, demand/supply relationships, market theory, elements of transport infrastructure and operations, assessment of transport infrastructure projects through cost-benefit analysis, transport costs, general pricing principles, public-private partnerships, planning and regulation of transport systems, case studies. Egyptian freight transport costs and distortion in mode choice with impact on the national economy will be studied and compared with similar cases world-wide.
  • Arabic Description

    An introduction of transportation economics and transportation economics definitions, demand/supply relationships, market theory, elements of transport infrastructure and operations, assessment of transport infrastructure projects through cost-benefit analysis, transport costs, general pricing principles, public-private partnerships, planning and regulation of transport systems, case studies. Egyptian freight transport costs and distortion in mode choice with impact on the national economy will be studied and compared with similar cases world-wide.
  • Department
    Public Works
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (25) + tr.Major Assessment (20 = tr.Industry 1% , tr.Project 1% , tr.Self_learning 2% , tr.Seminar 16% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + tr.Oral/Practical (10) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    100
  • Equivalent ECTS
    4
  • - Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering, Abdel-latif H. , Heikal A. Print 2018.