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Transport investment and the promotion of economic growth
David Banister,Yossi Berechman +1 more
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In this article, the authors have developed a new approach based on defining the set of necessary conditions for economic development to take place -in addition to the economic conditions, there are the investment conditions and the political and institutional conditions.About:
This article is published in Journal of Transport Geography.The article was published on 2001-09-01. It has received 554 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Project appraisal & Investment (macroeconomics).read more
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Equity in practice? Evaluations of equity in planning for bus rapid transit
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an empirical analysis of the role of transit equity in planning for BRT investments in three Canadian metropolitan areas and show that transit equity rarely figured into the design and planning of BRT systems and there is a lack of clarity in both defining equity and determining how it should be integrated in planning processes.
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Spatiotemporal analysis of land development in transitional China
TL;DR: This article investigated three types of land development in China, land for cities and towns, stand-alone industrial sites, and space devoted to transportation, and found that the spatial patterns and underlying determinants of China's construction boom vary across subcategories and periods.
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Entre marge et interface, recompositions territoriales à la frontière franco-brésilienne (Guyane / Amapá)
TL;DR: A frontiere franco-bresilienne is devenue depuis les annees 1990, a frontiere federative du Bresil et la France partagent une frontiere commune sur plus de 700 kilometres, via la Guyane, region monodepartementale d'Outre-Mer francaise, and l'Amapa, Etat de la Republique federative de Bresils as discussed by the authors.
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A complex network approach to understand commercial vehicle movement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce complex network analysis and use a commercial vehicle's observed trip as a proxy for a business relation between two facilities in its activity chain, and extract facility locations by applying density-based clustering to GPS data of commercial vehicle activities.
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Measuring the noise cost of aviation – The association between the Limited Use Area around Warsaw Chopin Airport and property values
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the external costs of aviation with particular emphasis on the effect of limited use area (LUA) related to aviation noise on the local community, and estimate to what degree this impact stabilizes over a period of time.
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Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a fully specified model of long-run growth in which knowledge is assumed to be an input in production that has increasing marginal productivity, which is essentially a competitive equilibrium model with endogenous technological change.
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Increasing Returns and Economic Geography
TL;DR: This paper developed a simple model that shows how a country can endogenously become differentiated into an industrialized core and an agricultural periphery, in which manufacturing firms tend to locate in the region with larger demand, but the location of demand itself depends on the distribution of manufacturing.
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Systems Competition and Network Effects
Michael L. Katz,Carl Shapiro +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the dynamics of consumer adoption decisions in the presence of network effects, competition between incompatible systems, and how suppliers choose which components are compatible and which are not.
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Urban spatial structure.
TL;DR: Anas et al. as discussed by the authors discuss the role that urban size and structure play in people's lives and how to understand the organization of cities, which yields insights about economy-wide growth processes and sheds light on economic concepts.
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Urban Spatial Structure
TL;DR: In this article, the interplay between agglomerative and dispersive forces generates spatial structures that are complex and prone to multiple equilibria and dynamic path-dependence.