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In transport economics, the generalised cost is the sum of the monetary and non-monetary costs of a journey. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is sometimes used as a basis for judgements of transit accessibility and equitable distribution of public transit resources.
The metabolic cost of transport includes the basal metabolic cost of maintaining bodily function, and so goes to infinity as speed goes to zero. [1] A human achieves the lowest cost of transport when walking at about 6 kilometres per hour (3.7 mph), at which speed a person of 70 kilograms (150 lb) has a metabolic rate of about 450 watts. [1]
The travel cost method of economic valuation, travel cost analysis, or Clawson method is a revealed preference method of economic valuation used in cost–benefit analysis to calculate the value of something that cannot be obtained through market prices (i.e. national parks, beaches, ecosystems).
The iceberg transport cost model is a commonly used, simple economic model of transportation costs. It relates transport costs linearly with distance, and pays these costs by extracting from the arriving volume. The model is attributed to Paul Samuelson's 1954 article in Deardorffs' Glossary of International Economics. [1]
Shows a firm's Economic Costs in the "Short Run" - which, as defined, contains at least 1 "Fixed Cost" that cannot be changed or done away with even if the firm goes out of business (stops producing) Variable cost: Variable costs are the costs paid to the variable input. Inputs include labor, capital, materials, power and land and buildings.
Economic mobility is the ability of an individual, family or some other group to improve (or lower) their economic status—usually measured in income. Economic mobility is often measured by movement between income quintiles. Economic mobility may be considered a type of social mobility, which is often measured in change in income.
From an economic aspect, congestion is a negative externality, for drivers can affect other drivers' costs of travel, such as costs of time, miles, or gasoline. [ 28 ] Therefore, in 1920 A. C. Pigou published the first edition of The Economics of Welfare and tried to solve the congestion problem.
In economics, a consumer's indirect utility function (,) gives the consumer's maximal attainable utility when faced with a vector of goods prices and an amount of income. It reflects both the consumer's preferences and market conditions.