Lecture Notes

Selected lectures are available below. All guest lectures are courtesy of the person named, and are used with permission.

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Introduction
1 Introduction (PDF)
Demand
2 Overview of consumer theory (PDF)
3 Discrete choice analysis I (PDF)
4 Discrete choice analysis II (PDF)
5 Travel demand modeling (PDF)
6 Freight demand (PDF)
Public transportation
7

Organizational models

(Courtesy of John Attanucci. Used with permission.)

(PDF)
8

Path choice models

(Courtesy of John Attanucci and Nigel Wilson. Used with permission.)

(PDF)
The firm and its costs
9 Theory of the firm (PDF)
10 Transportation costs (PDF)
11 Midterm exam  
Pricing
12 Pricing of transportation services: theory and practice I (PDF)
13 Pricing of transportation services: theory and practice II (PDF)
The maritime and port sector
14-15

Analysis of the maritime and port sector I and II

Guest lectures: Hilde Meersman and Eddy Van de Voorde, Department of Transport and Regional Economics, University of Antwerp

 
Revenue forecasting and management
16 Transportation revenue forecasting: theory and models (PDF)
17

Airline revenue management I: flight leg and network models

Guest lecture: Peter Belobaba, MIT International Center for Air Transportation (MIT ICAT)

(PDF)
18

Airline revenue management II: impact of fare simplification on revenue management (RM) models

Guest lecture: Peter Belobaba, MIT ICAT

(PDF)
Finance, regulation, and competition
19

Project finance I

Guest lecture: Jon Bottom, CRA International

(PDF)
20

Project finance II

Guest lecture: Jon Bottom, CRA International

(PDF)
21

Project finance III

Regulation of transportation industries

Guest lectures: Jon Bottom, CRA International

(PDF)
Project evaluation and programming
22

Project evaluation and programming I

Guest lecture: Lance Neumann, Cambridge Systematics, Inc.

(PDF)
23

Project evaluation and programming II

Guest lecture: Lance Neumann, Cambridge Systematics, Inc.

(PDF)
Developing countries
24

Developing country urban mobility: the sustainable development imperative

Guest lecture: Chris Zegras, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

(PDF)
25 Mobility demand in developing countries: some examples  
Intelligent transportation systems, conclusion
26 Intelligent transportation systems and the impact of traveler information; emerging themes in transportation economics and policy (PDF)