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Legal and Economic Concepts

Ideas from transport law and economics that apply across modes: who may carry what, under what obligation, across which jurisdiction. Belongs here: cabotage and common carrier. Does not belong here: economic concepts specific to one mode's daily operation, such as demurrage, which belongs to maritime concepts even though it has a legal and financial character.

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Era of Emergence
1959 1
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1. Transport Economics (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation)Transport economics, lead section, founding sentence
Quote, Transport economics, lead section, founding sentence
Transport economics is a branch of economics founded in 1959 by American economist John R. Meyer that deals with the allocation of resources within the transport sector.
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