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New Book Announcement:  
Sustainable Transportation Networks

by Anna Nagurney
Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, England (2000)

Book Description
  
Transportation networks are essential to the functioning of societies and
economies and provide the infrastructure for the movement of people and
goods over space and time. The existence and utilization of transportation
networks are fundamental to the modern age and the negative effects of
congestion and pollution associated with their increasing usage demand
urgent attention.

This book cogently addresses the question as to whether transportation
networks are sustainable: that is, can they last, given the growing demands
on the network, on the one hand, and the desire to alleviate the associated
negative impacts, on the other. Anna Nagurney answers the question
positively by providing a rigorous foundation for the formulation,
analysis, and computation of solutions to such problems through the use of
appropriate policies ranging from tolls and tradable pollution permits to
the design of the networks themselves.

Sustainable Transportation Networks will be of great value to students,
researchers, and practitioners of transportation studies, environmental
economics, regional science, and urban planning. 

Contents:

Preface
Part I: Introduction and Overview
1. Introduction
2. Foundations
3. Emissions Paradoxes in Transportation Networks
4. Viable and Sustainable Transportation Networks
Part II: Policies for Sustainable User-Optimized Transportation Networks
5. Emission Pricing for Sustainability - User-Optimized Perspective
6. Permits for User-Optimized, Fixed Demand Networks
7. Permits for User-Optimized, Elastic Demand Networks
Part III: Policies for Sustainable System-Optimized Transportation Networks
8. Sustainable System-Optimized Networks
9. Tradable Permits for System-Optimized Networks
Part IV: Special Topics
10 Spatial Oligopolies and Marketable Pollution Permits
11 Spatial Price Networks and Emission Policies
12 Technology and Network Design Issues
Part V: Summary and Conculsions
12 Concluding Comments
A. Optimization Theory
B. Variation Inequality Theory
C. Problems
Bibliography


304 pages Hardback 1 84064 375 9

About the Author
Anna Nagurney is the John F. Smith Memorial Professor, Isenberg School of
Management, University of Massachusetts at Amherst