Transportation Economics

Industry-Specific
Digital Skills

Transportation and Logistics

Duration

40 hours

PRESENTATION

The Transportation Economics Course offers you the opportunity to delve into a a booming sector where demand for workers is constantly growing. Today, urban mobility and economic regulation play a crucial role in the sustainable urban development. Through this course, you will acquire fundamental skills in microeconomics, economic regulation, pricing, and transportation investment analysis. These skills are essential for addressing the sector’s current challenges, enabling you not only to understand, but also to influence urban mobility policies and strategies. The online format gives you the flexibility to study from anywhere, making it easy to access content that will prepare you to become a leader in the field of transportation and urban mobility. Join our program and become an expert capable of transforming the future of transportation.

Objectives

– Understand the basic concepts of microeconomics as they apply to transportation. 

– Analyze economic regulation and its impact on urban mobility. 

– Evaluate pricing systems to optimize transportation use. 

– Identify best practices in urban transportation investments. 

– Research sustainable and efficient urban mobility models. 

– Apply economic principles to solve transportation problems. 

– Develop critical skills for analyzing transportation policies.

Syllabus

TEACHING UNIT 1. FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF MICROECONOMICS The consumer and the utility function Demand and the Concept of Elasticity Supply and Production Costs The Functioning of Urban Transportation Service Markets: Perfect Competition The Functioning of Urban Transportation Service Markets: Monopoly TEACHING UNIT 2. ECONOMIC REGULATION AND URBAN MOBILITY Competition and Externalities in Transportation The Need to Regulate Urban Passenger Transportation Transportation as a Public Service and the Common Good Criteria for Economic Regulation Efficiency-Based Regulation Methods TEACHING UNIT 3. TRANSPORTATION PRICING SYSTEMS The transportation pricing process Pricing rules Pricing based on the principles of efficiency and equity Pricing alternatives Effects of pricing criteria, intermodal effects TEACHING UNIT 4. ANALYSIS OF INVESTMENTS IN TRANSPORTATION AND URBAN MOBILITY Capacity investments Economic evaluation of investments Decision-making criteria Risk analysis Income distribution, social welfare, and decision-making criteria.
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