Economics of Transport and Telecommunication

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Department of Smart Cities and Regions

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The subject is dedicated to analytical and synthetically views of economic activities, both the production and services business systems. The main interest is focused on the parts which will be provided in decision-making processes by future engineers, technologists and managers. The property and financial structures create the basic issues for business activities. Furthermore, the attention is concentrated on time life cycle of product and service, quantification economic time life, depreciation and methods of its calculation. The problem of inventories as a key question of business activities is provided and basic mathematical inventory models are given. The core of entrepreneurial process - cost analysis, cost estimating , revenue, profit and benefit are put to the main interest of engineer and manager together with structure of business plan, entrepreneurial projects and their analysis and evaluation. Finally, the characteristics of time life business cycle from the start of activities to the end these ones are discussed.

The position of transport in the system of the national economy

Macroeconomic models

Transport infrastructure, transport and telecommunications operation

Multiplicative effects of transport infrastructure

Trading with products in transport and telecommunications

Cost calculation, pricing and tariffs creation

Qualitative factors of transport systems

Economic - energy aspects of transport systems

Transport and environment, theory of externalities

Infrastructure operation, public sector theory

Services in the public interest

Principles of transport services in the area

Transport and telecommunications companies, choice of company type, its establishment and operation

Economic principles of evaluation of transport projects

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