Course: Pricing in Transport

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Course title Pricing in Transport
Course code KDMML/TAPML
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Kudláčková Nina, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Introduction to transport economics theory. Sector and function of transport. Costs calculation, internal and external costs. Financing of transport and transport infrastructure, public-private partnership. Construction of prices, calculation models. Prices and prices regulation, prices regulation in transport. Tariffs, tariffs policy, tariffs of personal and freight transport. Tariffs in rail, road, air and water transport. Transport policy. Transportation market. Marketing in transport. Development of railways. European integration processes. European transport policy. New trends in transport development.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
To make students acquainted with the legal regulations, with the distribution of tariffs, with their construction and using with reference to individual types of transport in the area intrastate and international.
The student regains wide knowledge about area of tariff and price fixing department policy in transportation, based on cost calculation and knowledge of problems external costs and their internalization after graduation of subject.
Prerequisites
The student must be able to work with written text in the form of laws and other legislative norms. He should know questions of cost calculation and economy of company and economy of the traffic company. The orientation is important presumption in problems of transport policy and planning.

Assessment methods and criteria
Home assignment evaluation

Final Written Examination
Recommended literature
  • COTIF.
  • Erik Verhoef. Pricing in road transport. Cheltenham Edward Elgar, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84542-860-0.
  • Martin Schiefelbusch. Public transport and its users. Farnham Ashgate, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7546-7447-4.


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