Pieter (Piet) Rietveld (15 December 1952 – 1 November 2013) was a Dutch

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

and Professor in

Transport Economics Transport economics is a branch of economics founded in 1959 by American economist John R. Meyer that deals with the resource allocation, allocation of resources within the transport sector. It has strong links to civil engineering. Transport ec ...

at the

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, and a fellow at the

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. He was among the top researchers in economic geography according to

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Biography

Born in

Berkel en Rodenrijs image:Berkel bord.jpg, 270px, Town sign Berkel en Rodenrijs () is a town and former municipality in the Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of Lansingerland, in the province of South Holland, The Netherlands. The town is very close to ...

in 1952, Rietveld studied

econometrics Econometrics is an application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics", '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...

Erasmus University Erasmus University Rotterdam ( ; abbreviated as EUR) is a public university, public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus, Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century Christia ...

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

and received his PhD in

economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

, AmsterdamR.J.G.M. Florax, Peter Nijkamp, Kenneth George Willis (2002) ''Comparative Environmental Economic Assessment''. p. xx 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 The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an independent International research institute located in Laxenburg, near Vienna in Austria, founded as an East-West scientific cooperation initiative during the Cold War. Th ...

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, and was research co-ordinator at Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana in

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. In 1990 he was appointed Professor in Transport Economics at the

, at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Rietveld was elected a member of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to various advisory a ...

in 2011. He was a member of

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Work

Rietveld's research was focussed on

transport Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional Motion, movement of humans, animals, and cargo, goods from one location to another. Mode of transport, Modes of transport include aviation, air, land tr ...

and

regional development Regional development refers to a broad category of policies aimed at reducing regional disparities within an economy or across economies by devoting resources to underdeveloped areas. Regional development can be national or international in natur ...

; valuing the quality of transport services; the economics of

public transport Public transport (also known as public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) are forms of transport available to the general public. It typically uses a fixed schedule, route and charges a fixed fare. There is no rigid definition of whic ...

; modelling

land use Land use is an umbrella term to describe what happens on a parcel of land. It concerns the benefits derived from using the land, and also the land management actions that humans carry out there. The following categories are used for land use: fo ...

; and methods for

policy analysis Policy analysis or public policy analysis is a technique used in the public administration sub-field of political science to enable civil servants, nonprofit organizations, and others to examine and evaluate the available options to implement th ...

. Rietveld regularly appeared in the media.

Publications

Rietveld has authored and co-authored numerous publications his fields of expertise.

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lists more than 150 journal articles, over 1100 citations, and an

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of 18. Books, a selection: * 1979. ''Het stuur uit handen? : een reeks bijdragen op het terrein van ruimtelijke mobiliteit en beleid''. With

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(eds.) Leiden : Stenfert Kroese * 1980. ''Multiple objective decision methods and regional planning''. Amsterdam

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: 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: *

, 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

External links

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