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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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The city as a driver of new mobility patterns, cycling and gender equality: travel behaviour trends in Stockholm 1985-2015
Anne Bastian,Maria Börjesson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse changes in individual travel behavior in Stockholm County over 30 years, using three large cross-sectional travel survey data sets, and show how travel patterns evolve over time by gende...
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A conceptual overview on government initiatives and the transformation of transport and regional systems
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An analysis of the Spanish high capacity road network criticality
TL;DR: The number of relations or routes, being a trunk or not, the road density and the time to Madrid capital play an important role in the criticality of the roads section in the high capacity road network.
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Revisiting 'An unpopular essay on transportation:' the outcomes of old myths and the implications of new technologies for the sustainability of transport
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the outcomes of the nine myths about sustainable transportation proposed by William R. Black in "An unpopular essay on transportation" (2001) and find those predictions to have been largely accurate.
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National Study of BRT Development Outcomes
Arthur C. Nelson,Joanna Ganning +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed multiple studies using data from the United States Census Bureau, Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics, and CoStar data in a quasi-experimental, compare-and-contrast research design to compare jobs, population and households, and housing units before and after BRT station construction relative to control stations and the stations' metropolitan context.
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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.