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TR 6213 Transportations Economics and Finance
Description:
This course provides the basic principles of engineering economic analysis and their application to transportation projects. Half of the course covers the concepts of present worth, capital recovery, sinking funds, and annual cost applied to economic comparisons and evaluations of alternatives. The second half of the course delves into financing transportation and how government policy on transportation affects the economy and environs at the local, state, and federal levels. Historical perspectives on the financing of highway systems, public transportation systems, and transportation agencies are presented. Other subjects include privatization, innovative financing methods, business plans.
Credits: 3:0:0:3
Pre-Requisite: Graduate status
Co-Requisite: none
Notes: none
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