The new economic geography depicts spatial location as the key factor determining the growth performance of an economy and thus provides one of the most suitable frameworks to the study of transport infrastructures. The purpose of this paper is to exploit some of the analytical tools familiar to...

The aim of this study is to develop a new method to measure local endowments of transport infrastructures. Starting from the analytical approach of the quot;new economic geographyquot;, which emphasizes the role of spatial location in determining the growth performance of an economy, it is...