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Straßenverkehrssicherheit als wichtige Voraussetzung für nachhaltige Mobilität
Assing, Kai; Höhnscheid, Karl-Josef; Kranz, Thomas; … - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 79 (2010) 2, pp. 61-76
of the road traffic system and also bind resources. Therefore, apart from ethical aspects, road accidents have an … enormous influence on the social acceptability of road traffic as well as on a country's economic progress. In 2004, the costs … that have been achieved in the past are encouraging - the number of road traffic fatalities is at its lowest since WWII …
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Infrastructure and trade : a meta-analysis
Celbis, Guney; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 1 (2014) 1, pp. 25-62
Low levels of infrastructure quality and quantity can create trade impediments through increased transport costs. Since the late 1990s an increasing number of trade studies have taken infrastructure into account. The purpose of the present paper is to quantify the importance of infrastructure...
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An endogenous equilibrium game on traffic congestion externalities
Palm-Forster, Leah H.; Duke, Joshua M. - In: The journal of economic education : JEE 50 (2019) 1, pp. 57-69
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A study of socio-economic characteristics of the urbanities and their travel pattern in Nigeria
Adedotun, Samuel Babatunde; Tanimowwo, Nurain Bola; … - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 17 (2017) 4, pp. 831-848
This study, examined the relationship between socio-economic characteristics of the urbanities and their intra-urban mobility patterns in and across six selected cities in Osun State, Nigeria. Primary source of data for this work is the households across the cities studied. Instruments of data...
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Innovationen im Zuge der Digitalisierung des Personenverkehrs
Lütjens, Klaus; Radde, Marius; Liedtke, Gernot; … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 98 (2018) 7, pp. 512-518
including the extent to which digitalisation affects the traffic supply and demand and whether this will lead to an increase or …
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Urban infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean : public policy priorities
Jaitman, Laura - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 24 (2015), pp. 1-57
Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region in the developing world. Its urbanization rate of almost 80 % is comparable to that of high-income countries. However, cities in the region are struggling to provide the infrastructure needed for their millions of residents to enjoy a...
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Bobos in paradise : urban politics and the new economy
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2018
This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohème" (bobos). This takeover has been associated with greater investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport,...
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El teletrabajo y la mejora de la movilidad en las ciudades
Verano Tacoronte, Domingo; Suárez Falcón, Heriberto; … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 20 (2014) 1, pp. 41-46
The introduction of telework in organizations has been used as an example of policy to improve urban mobility, through …
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"After end-2008 structural changes in containership market" and their impact on industry’s policy
Goulielmos, Alexandros M. - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 6 (2018) 4, pp. 1-21
). We also showed that ports and canals, through their traditional charging policy on size, penalized containerships for …
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Greek shipping earnings and investment expenditure : exploring the pre & post "ordering-Ffenzy" period
Bragoudakis, Zacharias G.; Panagiotou, Stelios Th.; … - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 65 (2015) 3/4, pp. 3-28
The influx of shipping receipts from the world's leading fleet has been critical for the development of the Greek economy. Following the disastrous September of 2008, the range and speed of the shift in direction of the freight rates, combined with the general economic and credit climate, have...
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