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Express delivery to the suburbs : transport infrastructure and European cities.

Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel; Pasidis, Ilias-Nikiforos; … - 2015 - (Preliminary revision)

The main goal of this paper is to provide evidence for the causal effect of the highway and railway infrastructure on the suburbanization of population in European cities. This is considered a major issue in Europe, which has never been studied before at this scale. We constructed a unique...

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Project evaluation of transportation projects : an application of financial computable general equilibrium model

Kim, Euijune; Hewings, Geoffrey; Amir, Hidayat - 2015 - Draft

We develop a Financial Computable General Equilibrium Model (FCGE) model that can analyse the economic impacts of the infrastructure investment projects and their financing options on growth and distribution in Indonesia economy. It is possible to estimate growth and distributional effects of...

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Theroad against fatalities : infrastructure spending vs. regulation?

Albalate, Daniel; Fernández, Laura; Yarygina, Anastasiya - 2013

The road safety literature is typified by a high degree of compartmentalization between studies that focus on infrastructure and traffic conditions and those devoted to the evaluation of public policies and regulations. As a result, few studies adopt a unified empirical framework in their...

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Long term impact of a major infrastructure project : the port of Gioia Tauro

Genco, Mario; Sirtori, Emanuela; Vignetti, Silvia - 2013 - This version: 28 June 2013

This paper illustrates the story of the Port of Gioia Tauro, a major infrastructure investment co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund in the period 1994-1998, but whose origin dates back to the beginning of the 1970s. It draws from a recent ex-post evaluation carried out for the...

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TEN-T corridors : stairway to heaven or highway to hell?

Goldmann, Kathrin; Wessel, Jan - 2019

The European Union coordinates and co-finances supra-national transport infrastructure investments in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) which consist of road, rail, airport, and port infrastructure. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to quantify the direct and indirect...

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Regional government competition and incentives for commuting taxes and transport investments

Vandyck, Toon; Proost, Stef - 2011 - First draft

This paper discusses incentives for investments in transport infrastructure and commuting subsidies in a multi …-region framework. Responsibilities of fiscal treatment of commuting expenses, public provision of road infrastructure and road pricing … commuting from a peripheral, less productive area to an urban agglomeration or city center. The interactions between investment …

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Regional analysis of domestic integration in Egypt

Haddad, Eduardo Amaral; Lahr, Michael L.; Elshahawany, Dina - 2015

We develop an interregional computable general equilibrium model to help assess the ex ante impact of transportation infrastructure policies in Egypt. The model is integrated with a GIS network. We illustrate the analytical capabilities of the model by looking at the domestic integration of the...

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Revisit' the silk road : railway speed-up project export

Xu, Hangtian - 2014

China's main railway line linking east and west was speeded-up in Oct. 21, 2000, which improves freight efficiency between eastern China and Xinjiang (the hub of China and Central Asia). This paper tests the impact of exogenous domestic accessibility variation on export. By employing a...

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Workshop 6 report: wider impacts of public transport and successful implementation of desirable and beneficial projects

Venter, Christo; Leong, Wai Yan - In: Research in transportation economics 69 (2018), pp. 489-493

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ICT and transport infrastructure development

Na, Kyoung-Youn; Yun, Chang-Ho - 2016

This paper estimates the non-linear impact of ICT network on motorway contribution to total factor productivity. Using dynamic panel data of OECD member countries, the paper finds that there exists a critical mass of broadband penetration rate which has the property that if this threshold level...

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