Long term outlook for the world automobile industry

Bibliographicsection 76 chic Trade. In addition, the teader might wish the authors The essays contained in this book examine the emergence had spent mom time sharing their opinions of futuretrends and growth of the motor vehicle industry in Latin America, an area of the Thii World where the industry is and forecasts. These minor criticisms are not meant to detract from most advanced, and look at the dramatic social and ecothe wealth of information in the hook. The authors have nomic impact the development of the automobile has had taken advantage of their experience and insights to form on society there. They explore what occurs when a product of industrial society is produced and consumed in a a useful addition to port literature. context of dependency and underdevelopment. The study provides a comparative analysis of the political economy of development of a single industry in a number of different national settings. Argentina, Brazil and Mexico BRIEFNOTICE! are discussed, because they were the fiit in Latin AmerAutomotive ica to progress beyond simple vehicle assembly and to The Future of the Automobile, The Report of MIT’s install production operations. Columbia is included to International Automobile Program, Alan Altshuler, provide an example of a late-arriving industry in a smaller Mattin Anderson, Daniel Jones, Daniel Roos and James and less developed economy. Some of the essays focus Womack. MIT Press, 28 Carleton Street, Cambridge, on tlte role and impact of labor, and others discuss the MA 02142, U.S.A. 1984. pp. 321, $16.95. bargaining process between the transnational vehicle corporations and the Latin American governments involved. This Cyear, seven-nation study of the automobile inA concluding essay summarizes the study, and offers a dustry addresses such issues as the marked imbalance history of the industry in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico between the national auto industries of Japan, the United from 1900 to 1980. States and Western Europe, and the technological changes that alter competition, the logic of production location Transportation planning and labor. It explores trends that will shape the future of Transportation Investment and Prking Principles, the industry, and discusses the economic and political Martin Wohl and Chris Hendrickson. Wiley, 605 Third forces that affect the production of the world’s autoAvenue, New York, NY 10158, U.S.A., 1984, pp. 380. mobiles.

Thii study considers the possible changes in the world automobile industry in the long-term perspective of the 1980s and 1990s. The report foresees a slight annual increase of around 2% in world demand for cars during this period. It discusses factors likely to affect demand and supply in the world motor industry, and draws some conclusions concerning the role of governments in maintaining or reestablishing favourable conditions for balanced growth of the automobile business.

Transportation economics has become an essential tool for decision-making in the transportation industries. Principles and analysis procedures discussed in this book are those applied to a wide range of investment and pricing problems in industries such as construction, utility or water resource. Hem they are applied to the transportation industty. Economic elements such as the importance of equilibrium, the benefits and costs of particular facilities or services, methods for choosing among alternative projects, fmancial considerations and multiobjective decision-making, and estimation techniques are examined. The mathematical methods used are generally testticted to algebra and simple calculus. There are numerous graphical illustrations throughout the book.

Car Use: A !3ocial and Economic Study, M. Dix, S. Carpenter,M. Clarke, H. Polhurland M. Spencer. Gower, Old Post Road, Brookfield, VT 05036, U.S.A., 1983, pp. 267, $35.50.

Urban Transportation Networks: Equilibrium Am& yahpwith Mathematical Programming Metlmda, Yosef Sheff~. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632, U.S.A., pp. 399.

This study analyzes contemporary patterns of household car usage, and nonusage. in Great Britain. It is based on data obtained from both indepth interviews and traditional large-scale surveys, and reveals insights into the behavior, choice and patterns of car users. Three themes are investigated: effects of operating costs; car use patterns as a basis for traffic forecasts and planning; and the effects of an increase in second-car ownership.

This text emphasizes engineering applications to describe how interactions between transportation system congestion and the amount of travel through that system can be modeled and solved to obtain the flow pattern throughout an urban transportation network. It presents various assumptions, models and algorithms used to calculate the flow pattern from the inputs, which typically include a description of the following (either existing or projected): (i) The transportationinfrastructureand services; (ii) The transpartrtionsystem operating and control policies; (iii) The demand for travel. It is designed for classroom use for either graduate or undergraduatecourses; it does not require any prerequisites in mathematical programming

Lang Term Outlook for tbe World Automobile Industry, OJXD, 2, rue Andre-Pascal, 75775 PARIS CEDEX 16, France, 1983, pp. 118.

ThePoIitkalEconomyoftheLatMAmerkanMotor Vehicle Industry, edited by Rich Kronish and Kenneth Mericle. MIT Press, Camhridge, MA 02142, U.S.A., 1984, pp. 314, $30.00.