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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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Logistics process improvement of Kapikule border crossing
Bora Çekyay,Mine Isik,Füsun Ülengin,Özgür Kabak,Şule Önsel,Özay Özaydın,Peral Toktaş Palut,Burçin Bozkaya,Yusuf İlker Topçu +8 more
TL;DR: Cekyay, Bora (Dogus Author) as discussed by the authors, Onsel Ekici, Sule, Ozaydin and Ozaydır (Dogu Author), Toktas Palut, Peral (Doguan Author)
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Impacts of the Regional Accessibility Improvement on the National Spatial Structure
Park Junhwa,Kim， Hong Bae +1 more
Agent-Based Indicators Analysis in the Context of Policy Evaluation: Preliminary Findings
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a methodology based on the strength of microsimulation in three dimensions (space, time, and agents) for evaluating transport and land use policies.
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Efectos sobre la accesibilidad de la red de autovías planeada en el Plan de Infraestructuras para la Sostenibilidad del Transporte en Andalucía (España)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the impact of road network improvements in Andalusia on accessibility and territorial cohesion indicators based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools, and showed that an average reduction of the travel times of 3.6% and an improvement of the territorial cohesion were achieved by four strategic actions.
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Funding for roads in South Africa: Understanding the principles of fair and efficient road user charges
TL;DR: In this article, the importance of roads to the economy is introduced which underscores the need for an adequate and stable revenue source for road construction, maintenance and upgrade, and the technical difficulties of implementing marginal social cost is presented which are often the reason why alternative pricing regimes, such as average cost or long run marginal costs are adopted in practice.
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Increasing Returns and Economic Geography
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Systems Competition and Network Effects
Michael L. Katz,Carl Shapiro +1 more
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Urban Spatial Structure
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