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Transport investment and the promotion of economic growth

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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.
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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).

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A comparison of economic impacts from pricing schemes on heavy vehicles in transport

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and compare a number of studies of the relationship between heavy vehicle fees (HVF) and the economy, which is interesting because there exists a vast amount of literature on HVF and infrastructure investment.

A random utility based multiregional input-output approach to estimate the impact of a new highway on the regional distribution of jobs

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive approach for analyzing the interaction of new transport infrastructure and the economic impact through an integrated model, which has been applied to the construction of the motorway A-40 in Spain (497 Km) which runs across three regions without passing though Madrid City.
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Evaluation of seaports’ investment attractiveness

TL;DR: In this article, the authors made a comprehensive assessment of the seaports' investment attractiveness to use it for increasing the efficiency of attracting investment in the development of Ukrainian seaport, which are part of the European transport network.
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Accessibility and the local concentration of economic activity: a case study for county Galway

TL;DR: In this paper, road infrastructure investment has been a major policy instrument to achieve higher levels of accessibility and connectivity among distant regions in Ireland, and increased connectivity is generally re-wired.
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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

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.
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