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 .
^ top researchers in economic geography according to RePEc
^ Who's who in Economics , 4th edition, Mark Blaug & Howard Vane, editors, pp 692-4
^ a b R.J.G.M. Florax, Peter Nijkamp, Kenneth George Willis (2002) Comparative Environmental Economic Assessment . p. xx
^ "P. (Piet) Rietveld (1952 - 2013)" . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 18 March 2019.
^ "Piet Rietveld" . Academia Europaea. Retrieved 2017-03-18 .
^ Volkskrant, Nov 30, 2006
^ Volkskrant, Dec 10, 2007
^ List of publications at National Library of the Netherlands.
^ Google Scholar
^ Scopus lists more than 150 journal articles, over 1100 citations, and an h-index of 18.
External links
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