Piet Rietveld is a professor in transport economics

Transport economics

Transport economics is a branch of economics that deals with the allocation of resources within the transport sector and has strong linkages with civil engineering. Transport economics differs from some other branches of economics in that the assumption of a spaceless, instantaneous economy does...

 at the Vrije Universiteit

Vrije Universiteit

The Vrije Universiteit is a university in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch name is often abbreviated as VU and in English the university uses the name "VU University". The university is located on a compact urban campus in the southern part of Amsterdam in the Buitenveldert district...

, Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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, and a fellow at the Tinbergen Institute

Tinbergen Institute

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. He studied econometrics

Econometrics

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 at Erasmus University

Erasmus University

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, Rotterdam

Rotterdam

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 and received his PhD in economics

Economics

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 at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Previously, he worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria

Austria

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, and was research co-ordinator at Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana in Salatiga

Salatiga

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, Indonesia

Indonesia

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. He is among the top researchers in economic geography according to IDEAS/RePEc

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His current research is focussed on transport

Transport

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 and regional development

Regional development

Regional development is the provision of aid and other assistance to regions which are less economically developed. Regional development may be domestic or international in nature...

; valuing the quality of transport services; the economics of public transport

Public transport

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; modelling land use

Land use

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; and methods for policy analysis

Policy analysis

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. Scopus

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 lists more than 150 journal articles, over 1100 citations, and an h-index

H-index

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of 18.

Rietveld regularly appears in the media.

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