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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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Transport Networks, Land Use and Travel Behaviour: a Long Term Investigation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the long-term relationships between transport networks, land use and travel behavior at a regional scale by applying various methods to an extensive longterm geo-referenced database, in the case of the Greater Randstad Area in the Netherlands.
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Transport development, intellectual property rights protection and innovation: The case of the Yangtze River Delta Region, China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors examined whether transport development and the institution of intellectual property rights (IPRs) can assist in understanding disparities between cities in terms of innovation, using the Yangtze River Delta Region (YRDR) as a case study.
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Accessibility and socio-economic development of human settlements
TL;DR: It is observed across all the settlements that a decrease in access to opportunities is associated with relatively greater socio-economic disadvantage including increased median age and unemployment rate and decreased median household income.
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Connecting for competitiveness: future transport in UK city regions
TL;DR: A number of potential mechanisms are available to UK cities, but only if central government is willing to transfer (limited) financial powers to the city regions as mentioned in this paper, but this is not the case in the UK.
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Assessing the Impacts of High Speed Rail Development in China’s Yangtze River Delta Megaregion
TL;DR: In this article, the impacts of high speed rail (HSR) development in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) Megaregion, China are assessed. And a pole-axis-network system (PANS) model is proposed to guide the entire study.
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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.