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

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the 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 field there are ...

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 allocation of resources within the transport sector. It has strong links to civil engineering. Transport economics differs from ...

at the

Vrije Universiteit The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

, and a fellow at the

Tinbergen Institute The Tinbergen Institute is a joint institute for research and education in economics, econometrics and finance of the VU University Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam, and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The institute was founded in 1987 an ...

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

Biography

Born in

Berkel en Rodenrijs 270px, Town sign Berkel en Rodenrijs () is a town and former municipality in the municipality of Lansingerland, in the province of South Holland, The Netherlands. The town is very close to ROTTERDAM History Berkel en Rodenrijs was founded in t ...

in 1952, Rietveld studied

econometrics Econometrics is the 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 ...

at Erasmus University,

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"Ne ...

and received his PhD in

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

, 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. Through its research programs and initiatives, the institute conducts policy-o ...

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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 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 movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land ( rail and road), water, cable, pipelin ...

and

regional development Regional development is a broad term but can be seen as a general effort to reduce regional disparities by supporting (employ) economin regions. In the past, regional development policy tended to try to achieve these objectives by means developmen ...

; valuing the quality of transport services; the economics of

public transport Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typi ...

; modelling

land use Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods. Land use by humans has a long ...

; and methods for

policy analysis 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 the goals of laws and elected ...

. 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

Peter Nijkamp Peter Nijkamp (born 26 February 1946) is a Dutch economist, Professor of Regional Economics and Economic Geography at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and President of the Governing Board of t ...

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

at feweb.vu.nl

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