Piet Rietveld
Professor of Transport Economics
Vrije University - Amsterdam
Homepage at the Faculty of Economics
Piet Rietveld studied econometrics at Erasmus University, Rotterdam (cum laude degree) and received his PhD in economics at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He worked at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Austria) and was research co-ordinator at Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana in Salatiga, Indonesia.
Since 1990 he has been professor in Transport Economics at the Faculty of Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is a fellow at the Tinbergen Institute.
Over the past fifteen years he has worked on various topics in the field of transport economics and regional economics including:
* the impact of transport infrastructure on land use and spatial development;
* the social feasibility of transport policies;
* barrier effects of borders on transport and communication.
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