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Dutch economist (1952–2013)
Pieter (Piet) Rietveld (15 December 1952 – 1 November 2013) was a Dutch
economist and Professor in
Transport Economics at the
Vrije Universiteit ,
Amsterdam , and a fellow at the
Tinbergen Institute .
[1] He was among the top researchers in economic geography
[2] according to
IDEAS/RePEc .
Biography
Born in
Berkel en Rodenrijs in 1952,
[3] Rietveld studied
econometrics at
Erasmus University ,
Rotterdam and received his PhD in
economics at
Vrije Universiteit , Amsterdam
[4] in 1980 with a thesis entitled "Multiple objective decision methods and regional planning."
Rietveld had started his academic career at the
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ,
Austria , and was research co-ordinator at
Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana in
Salatiga ,
Indonesia . In 1990 he was appointed Professor in Transport Economics at the
Vrije Universiteit ,
Amsterdam , at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.
[4] Rietveld was elected a member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.
[5] He was a member of
Academia Europaea .
[6]
Work
Rietveld's research was focussed on
transport and
regional development ; valuing the quality of transport services; the economics of
public transport ; modelling
land use ; and methods for
policy analysis . Rietveld regularly appeared in the media.
[7]
[8]
Publications
Rietveld has authored and co-authored numerous publications his fields of expertise.
[9]
[10]
[11] Books, a selection:
1979. Het stuur uit handen? : een reeks bijdragen op het terrein van ruimtelijke mobiliteit en beleid . With
Peter Nijkamp (eds.) Leiden : Stenfert Kroese
1980. Multiple objective decision methods and regional planning . Amsterdam [etc.] : North-Holland Publishing Co
1998/2012. Is Transport Infrastructure Effective?: Transport Infrastructure and Accessibility - Impacts on the Space Economy . With
Frank Bruinsma . Springer Verlag.
Articles, a selection:
Peter Nijkamp , Piet Rietveld, and
Henk Voogd . Multicriteria evaluation in physical planning. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1990.
Erik Verhoef , Peter Nijkamp, and Piet Rietveld. "
Second-best congestion pricing: the case of an untolled alternative ." Journal of Urban Economics 40.3 (1996): 279–302.
De Groot, H. L. F., Linders, G. J., Rietveld, P., & Subramanian, U. (2004).
The institutional determinants of bilateral trade patterns . Kyklos, 57(1), 103–123.
References
^
"In memoriam Piet Rietveld - Tinbergen" . Tinbergen.nl. Archived from
the original on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2013-11-02 .
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top researchers in economic geography according to RePEc
^ Who's who in Economics , 4th edition, Mark Blaug & Howard Vane, editors, pp 692-4
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a
b R.J.G.M. Florax, Peter Nijkamp, Kenneth George Willis (2002) Comparative Environmental Economic Assessment . p. xx
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"P. (Piet) Rietveld (1952 - 2013)" . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from
the original on 18 March 2019.
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"Piet Rietveld" . Academia Europaea. Retrieved 2017-03-18 .
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Volkskrant, Nov 30, 2006
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Volkskrant, Dec 10, 2007
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List of publications at National Library of the Netherlands.
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Google Scholar
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Scopus lists more than 150 journal articles, over 1100 citations, and an
h-index of 18.
External links
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