Transportation, knowledge and space in urban and regional economics

Contents: 1. Introduction / Kakuya Matsushima and William P. Anderson -- Part I: Transportation infrastructure and economic growth -- 2. Railways and regional growth, dispersion and concentration in Scandinavia during 150 years / Hans Westlund -- 3. Regional economic impacts of a transportation infrastructure project: the Herb Grey parkway / William P. Anderson, Hanna Maoh and Charles Burke -- 4. Modeling transportation in general equilibrium / Gautam Ray -- 5. Comparative assessment of public transportation infrastructure and regional economic development / Zhenhua Chen and Kingsley E. Haynes -- Part II: Models for transportation planning and policy -- 6. Second best toll pricing of highway taking account of maintenance costs / Shunsuke Segi and Kiyoshi Kobayashi -- 7. Armington elasticities in multi-regional trade for transport policy in Japan / Keisuke Sato and Atsushi Koike -- 8. Empirical analysis of transport cost for interregional trade / Yoko Konishi, Se-il Mun, Yoshihiko Nishiyama and Ji-eun Sung -- 9. Airport charges, infrastructure life cycle, and economic impact: a case study of Hong Kong / Yulai Wan and Anming Zhang -- Part III: Studies on the spatial structure of cities -- 10. Synergy effects of face-to-face interactions and urban spatial structure / Toshimori Otazawa and Yuki Ohira -- 11. Endogenous formation of urban structure with residential sorting / Kakuya Matsushima and Kiyoshi Kobayashi -- 12. A discount point system and vitalization of a commercial district with small retail / Kiyoshi Kobayashi and Masamitsu Onishi -- 13. Personal purpose inter-regional travels: an integrator of historical inter-regional migrations / Makoto Okumura and Hiromichi Yamaguchi -- 14. A model of commuting and the economic milieu : an analysis using aggregated data for Sweden / Thomas Laitila, Marie Lundgren and Michael Olsson -- Part IV: Transformations in the knowledge economy -- 15. Internal and external knowledge and development in regions / åke E Andersson and Börje Johansson -- Dedication: Professor Kiyoshi Kobayashi / Kakuya Matsushima and Bill Anderson -- Index.