-2014. Panel GMM methods evaluate the impact of changes in air, conventional rail, HSR, roads, and waterways turnover volume on … provincial output growth. GMM estimates demonstrate that rail and roads significantly affect economic growth; rail's impact is …. Impulse response and variance decompositions indicate that rail and roads considerably affect GDP growth across China, and …

This paper provides empirical proof on the causal relationships between transport infrastructure development, transport … transport infrastructure development, international tourism spending, transport sector energy consumption, transport sector CO2 …. Recommendations for intervention include government subsidies, tax incentives, regulations, and transport-sector infrastructure …

It is widely recognized that railways were one of the most important drivers of economic growth in the 19th and 20th … century, but it is less recognized that railways had a different impact across countries. In this paper, we first estimate the … growth impact of Indian railways, one of the largest networks in the world circa 1900. Then, we show railways made a smaller …

different modes of transport infrastructure namely road, rail and air transports in the vector error correction model framework …This study empirically re-examines the relationship between transport infrastructure and economic growth in India for …-run while rail transport is insignificant. This study further examines the said issue using unit free index variables and has …

This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a … consistent with factor mobility playing an important role in determining the economic benefits of infrastructure development …

inputs to stimulate production brought farmers up against constraints in storage, transport and marketing, leading them to …