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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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Using Multi Criteria Evaluation in Forest resource conservation in Ghana: Spatially identifying vulnerable areas
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discussed and illustrated the use of spatial multicriteria decision support system (SMDSS) to identify factors that make forest and game reserves vulnerable to rampant human induced depletion of forest resources.
Mobility, roads, development and quality of life
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to clear up the true meaning of the concepts of mobility and development, starting from the remark that an upper limit for transport is needed to guarantee its sustainability, transport patterns are looked for to be promoted for furthering the development.
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Investigating the transferability of the Workplace Parking Levy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the transferability of the WPL to other local authorities which is analysed through the application of the Policy Transfer Framework to the Wpl in the UK context.
Dissertation
High Speed Rail in Greece : methods for evaluating economic impacts
TL;DR: Sussman et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the transportation sector of Greece, its governance and funding issues, and went into depth regarding the mode of high-speed rail, and evaluated the economic impacts of transportation investments and high speed rail specifically.
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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.