Preface

With the development of economy, the transportation industry has gradually entered the period of comprehensive transportation system. As a branch of economics, transportation economics has been valued by economists since the first industrial revolution, and has developed rapidly. So far, it has formed a relatively perfect research theory and system of transportation economics. Transportation economics is a science which studies and discusses the law of transportation economy, which is mainly based on the application of economic principles and methods in the field of transportation. It can enable students to establish economic views and economic awareness, and thus have the ability to carry out economic argumentation, pre-test, analysis and evaluation and decision-making on the transportation problems. On the basis of collecting the advantages of many experts, according to their own research for many years, combined with the characteristics of transportation industry, using the basic principles and methods of microeconomics, macroeconomics and network economics, the editor supplements and summarizes the latest research results of transportation economics. This book covers both qualitative and quantitative aspects, with comprehensive content and strong practicability. It provides the basis for transportation planning and management, logistics management, transportation engineering, industrial economy (transportation economy) and other professional transportation economics and transportation economic theories.
       In order to get out of the predicament of transportation economics, we must change the old framework of department economics, which takes the centralized planning system as the main structure, takes a certain mode of transportation as the research object, and takes specific business knowledge as the basic content, and is rigidly bound to expound the economic laws revealed by political economy. At the same time, we should avoid the simple overlapping with transportation planning, transportation organization, transportation engineering and other disciplines. This book tries to promote the gradual shift of transportation economics from the teaching of empirical knowledge to the systematic theoretical analysis, from the description of specific work to the advanced research of transportation policy, from the discussion of problems in parts to the formation of a complete thought and logic system of transportation economy.

前 言

随着经济的发展，交通运输业已经逐步进入了综合交通运输体系的时期。交通运输经济学作为经济学的一个分支， 自第一次工业革命后开始受到经济学家的重视，并且得到迅速发展，至今已形成了较为完善的运输经济学研究理论和体系。交通运输经济学是以经济学原理和方法在交通运输领域的应用为主要内容，研究和探讨运输经济规律的科学，能使学生树立经济观点、建立经济意识，从而具备对交通运输问题进行经济论证、预测、分析评价和决策的能力。编者在集众家之所长的基础上，根据自己多年的研究，结合交通运输业的特点，运用微观经济学、宏观经济学和网络经济学等的基本原理和方法，对交通运榆经济学领城的最新的研究成果进行了补充和总结。本书涵盖了定性和定量两个方面，内容全面，实用性强，是为交通运输规划与管理、物流管理、 交通工程、产业经济(运输经济)等专业运输经济学和运输经济理论提供依据。
         为了使运输经济学走出困境，必须改变以集中计划体制为主体结构、以某种运输方式为研究对象、以具体业务知识为基本内容的拘泥于阐述政治经济学所揭示的经济规律的部门经济学的旧框架。同时要避免与交通规划学、运输组织学运输工程学等学科的简单重叠。本书力图推动运输经济学逐渐从以经验知识的传授为主转向以系统化的理论分析为主，从对具体工作的描述转向超前的运输政策研究，从只对问题进行分割或片断的讨论转向形成完整的运输经济思想和逻辑体系。