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THE SPEED LIMITS DEBATE: IS EFFECTIVE A TEMPORARY CHANGE? THE CASE OF SPAIN.

Castro-Nuno, Mercedes; Castillo-Manzano, José I.; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Nowadays, speeding is one of the most relevant problems for traffic safety and most resistant to change in motorized countries. The key instruments in Speed Management Policy are speed limits. This road safety strategy is often established or changed, in order to save fuel during periods of...

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Experiments in transport related choices: the influence of risk and uncertainty in determining workers? behaviour with respect to parking alternatives.

Carlo, Angela De; Bergantino, Angela Stefania; Morone, … - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Over recent years, parking policy has become a key element of urban transport policy and planning in many countries. The need of urban mobility, mostly guaranteed by private cars, in facts, impacts on the policy and regulations of parking areas. The issue is particularly relevant for work...

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Chicken or egg? Transport and urban development in Berlin

Moeller, Kristoffer; Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Wendland, Nicolai - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Infrastructure and especially mass transit play a major role in urban economics and are the centre of many research questions. Probably due to simultaneous determination of infrastructure supply and demand most research is only carried out on the supply side driven relationship explaining how...

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THE ?EUROPEANIZATION? OF THE COMMON ROAD SAFETY POLICY: AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS.

Castro-Nuno, Mercedes; Castillo-Manzano, Jose I.; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The 2001 White Paper and its development in the 3rd European Road Safety Action Program, represent a turning point in the history of the European Road Safety Policy. The possible determinants of the road mortality in the EU over (2000-2009) are examined using a panel data. Our main finding is...

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The Analysis of Turkey's Freight Transport in Terms of Tranport Modes

OGUZTIMUR, SENAY; COLAK, KENAN - European Regional Science Association - 2013

significant logistics hubs and transit countries in the region. Yet, some 96 % of passengers and 92 % of freight are transported … (Rollende Landstrase/Ro-La) transport. In order to overcome this vulnerability and become more sustainable, Turkey needs to … enrich its operating capability of intermodal transport, whether as road-rail, Ro-La, RO-RO and rail ferry services in its …

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Do Market-Based Tax Incentives Attract New Businesses? Evidence from the New Markets Tax Credit

Ross, Amanda; Wolf, Kaitlyn - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Policy makers at all levels of government believe that one of the key drivers of local economic growth is new businesses. Therefore, governments design policy with the intention of attracting businesses with the hopes that this will create future growth in struggling areas. Over the past few...

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Mobility Management in small and medium cities: The case of Serres

Giantsidis, Apostolos - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Mobility Management refers to the policies and soft measures for the achievement of a more sustainable and efficient transportation system. During the last few years, many cities and even regions have started implementing transportation policies based on Mobility Management for the modification...

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Measuring the value of transport time for inter-regional trade

Mun, Se-il; Konishi, Yoko; Nishiyama, Yoshihiko; Sung, … - European Regional Science Association - 2014

This paper presents an approach to measuring the values of time cost for freight transportation, and examines its … transport time is determined as market outcome. In the model, the freight charge, the price of transportation services, is …. Consequently equilibrium freight charge tends to be higher for shorter transport time, such as express delivery fee in postal …

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Garage and Curbside Parking Competition with Search Congestion

Inci, Eren; Lindsey, Robin - European Regional Science Association - 2014

In many downtown areas, privately operated parking garages compete with each other and with publicly operated curbside parking. Garages exercise market power by charging fees that vary with parking duration. Curbside space is scarce, and drivers have to search for it. This creates a congestion...

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Socio-economic risk assessment of flooding for Russian coastal regions

Zemtsov, Stepan; Kidyaeva, Vera; Fadeev, Maxim - European Regional Science Association - 2013

strengthening of protective infrastructure. Vulnerability assessment for municipal societies of Krasnodar Region (the Azov and the … ?vulnerability?, consisting of ?susceptibility?, ?coping capacity? and ?adaptive capacity?. Relevant indicators were selected … ? vulnerability, S - area, I - type of risk, i - type of damage, C - costs of preventive measures. The risk is growing and covers new …

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