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location of service-sector establishments to measure commuting and non-commuting trips within the Greater Tokyo metropolitan … area. We show that non-commuting trips are frequent, more localized than commuting trips, strongly related to the … changes in travel patterns within the city (because of the different geography of commuting and non-commuting trips) …
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, residence attractiveness and bilateral commuting frictions). This methodology holds in the class of spatial models that are … characterized by a structural gravity equation for commuting. We show that the increased openness of counties to commuting is mainly … explained by reductions in bilateral commuting frictions, consistent with the expansion of the interstate highway network and …
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What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...
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Economic activity is highly unevenly distributed within cities, as reflected in the concentration of economic functions in specific locations, such as finance in the Square Mile in London. The extent to which this concentration reflects natural advantages versus agglomeration forces is central...
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