Dr. Joseph Berechman is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Economics, at City College, the City University of NY. Previously, he was the CN Chair Professor in Transportation and International Logistics, the Sauder School of Business, the University  of British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Berechman has received his Bachelor degree from the Hebrew  University in Jerusalem,  Israel, his MBA from the Wharton  School and PhD degree from the University  of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Subsequently, he was on the faculty of SUNY Buffalo, Tel-Aviv  University and the University  of California, Irvine. He also was a Fellow at The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. Dr. Berechman has consulted on a variety of transportation and urban projects in different countries and has been a principal investigator in several major studies done for the European Union. For the past several years he is engaged in major cost and investment studies of transportation infrastructure projects in New York. He has published numerous journal papers and four research books. Dr. Berechman’s current research interests focus on transportation infrastructure investment evaluation and pricing; the relationships between transportation development and economic growth, and the estimation of full marginal costs from additional truck traffic.

Books:

Transport Investment and Economic Development, (with D. Bansiter), University College London Press, 2000

Transport and Land Use, (with H. Kohno, K. Button and P. Nijkamp, eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1996.

Public Transit Economics and Deregulation Policy, North-Holland, 1993

Transportation in Unified Europe: Policies and Challenges, (with D. Banister), North-Holland, 1993

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