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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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Network analysis for performance control in the governance of interconnected local transport companies
Laura Tampieri,Paolo Canonico +1 more
TL;DR: The results of a pilot case of local public transport companies in the Forlì-Cesena area (Italy) support the hypothesis that, although structural centralization was ostensibly oriented towards increasing governance, the structure actually devolved into decentralized control at the periphery of the network, diminishing the effectiveness of initiatives.
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Rivalry, Excludability and Positive Transport Externalities -- Case Study of a Private University in Poland.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the impact of competitiveness and excludability in transport systems on the positive external effects important for the functioning of a large private university in Wroclaw (Poland).
Transport in a sustainable urban future
Iain Docherty,Jon Shaw +1 more
TL;DR: Docherty et al. as mentioned in this paper argue that managing urban transport effectively, given its complex and intersecting economic, environmental and social impacts, is also precisely the kind of "wicked problem" that policy makers consistently find hard to resolve.
Transport governance, structures and policy implementation: A methodological framework
W Akram,Julian Hine,Jim Berry +2 more
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Can We Have Our Cake and Still Eat It? A Review of Flexibility in the Structural Spatial Development and Passenger Transport Relation in Developing Countries
TL;DR: In this article, the role of flexibility in the relationship between structural spatial development and passenger transport, its economic, environmental, and social perspectives, the long-term impacts of this relationship and the role in this relationship in developing countries are examined.
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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.