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Urban transport problem has assumed crisis proportion in all the metropolitan cities in India, with difference in degree, due to imbalance between demand for the supply of transport services. Growth of population and increase in the level of activities would generate demand for mobility of goods and passengers which could hardly be met by available modes of transport and infrastructure in cities, particularly in the context of globalisation. Crisis gets ...
Economic Studies (1988) reports research papers of the teachers and research works of the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University. Its contents cover a wide range of subjects of current interest revelant to the third world.
Studies in Urban Transport' is a collection of revised version of the papers already published in various popular and specialized journals in India and abroad. The sixteen papers selected in this volume were devoted to study the reasons behind inefficiency and financial maladies that the owners of the dominant urban transport modes suffer from and suggest some meaningful remedial measures. In the process some theoretical questions relating to planning, pricing, ...