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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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Study of Chinese and European automotive R&D - Innovative approaches to new energy vehicle requirements
Benjamin Thoma,David O'Sullivan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline disruptive innovation patterns of the Chinese automotive industry and showcase the system integration capabilities of European carmakers in order to tackle the paradigm shift towards new energy vehicles that require integration into a wider network.
The evaluation of the fiscal sustainability of transportation infrastructure investment within territorial programs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the fiscal conditions for governmental investment in transportation infrastructure and propose a conceptual scope of models which will compute the fiscal and financial results of territorial programs, including feasibility studies of the projects of the private sector and the fiscal impact of their support by the government as well of the impact of direct public investment and administrative costs that are incurred in the course of such programs.
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The Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Evaluation of Public Infrastructure Projects - The Case of the Subway of Potenza
TL;DR: In this article, the economic feasibility of a project of public infrastructure, the expansion of the subway of the city Potenza, is estimated through the application of the Cost-Benefit Analysis.
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A framework for the better integration of the crucial economic factors of Sri Lankan urban renewal projects
TL;DR: Although urbanization can increase the prosperity and development of the urbanized communities, the planning, management and governance of these areas is often a struggle resulting in incomplete in....
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An argumentation model for deliberation in heterogeneous multiagent systems
TL;DR: In this article, a dissertacao model for argumentacao for deliberacao in sistemas multi-agente heterogeneos is proposed, with the goal of desenvolver a model that can be adapted to outros dominios of aplicacao, facilitating assim a construcao of sisteme de apoio a decisao baseados em agentes argumentativos.
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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.