When studying “urban unities” as qualified by The French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), it may exist different types of towns. They can be centre, periurban or rural areas which could require different transport services. This distinction is based on the...

The aim of the paper is to correct standard measures of agglomeration economies in order to account for air pollution generated by commuting. This paper examines the impact of nitrogen oxide (NOX) on worker productivity. NOX emissions are primarily released by the transportation sector....

The French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) qualifies as “urban unities” every town inside urban agglomerations. But in these urban organizations, centres, suburban and/or rural areas can exist and we suspect they require differentiated and/or specific transport...

It is widely accepted that there are some factors that influence the location patterns of firms over space and over time. The above is especially relevant in the case of deprived regions because an increase of firms’ location leads to higher employment opportunities which impacts on the...

As it is widely accepted, large scale transportation projects have a significant impact both in the areas around its stations, and in a regional level at different topics of urban environment. For example, a new transport infrastructure may produce changes on the real estate market. Many times,...

This paper aims to correct standard measures of agglomeration economies to account for air pollution generated by commuting. This paper examines the impact of nitrogen oxide (NOX) a pollutant mainly released by transportation on worker productivity. On one side, literature on agglomeration...

Despite a long-standing tradition within transport studies research, capturing and assessing the long-term impacts of major transport investment projects is still problematic. This is partly due to the relative paucity of empirical data, as well as the considerable research effort involved in...

The key role of the urban dimension in the future development of the Europe 2020 strategy, combined with the world economic and financial crisis that has deeply affected the European economy, calls for the optimisation of the use of scarce financial resources. To this end, the present study has...