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Trade effects of the New Silk Road : a gravity analysis

Baniya, Suprabha; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2019

This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...

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Reducing environmental risks from belt and road initiative investments in transportation infrastructure

Losos, Elizabeth; Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Olander, Lydia; … - 2019

The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy projects' greenhouse gas emissions. Others, such as transportation infrastructure,...

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Commuting in Europe: an inter-regional analysis on its determinants and spatial effects

Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020

Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross … instance, the perceived commuting distance significantly depends on the time needed to reach the corresponding workplace and … commuting outflow. A similar impact is found with respect to housing costs, that is the cheaper is the relative house price of …

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There and back again : women's marginal commuting costs

Bergemann, Annette; Brunow, Stephan; Stockton, Isabel - 2024

We estimate female and male workers' marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany, using a … partial-equilibrium model of job search with non-wage job attributes. Commuting costs have implications not just for … wage) to reduce commuting distance at the margin. The average men's marginal willingness to pay is similar to childless …

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Travel with dogs: the need to accommodate "messy trips" in healthy and sustainable transport transitions

Kent, Jennifer L.; Mulley, Corinne - 2022

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Sustainable Urban Transport for Kyiv : Towards a Sustainable and Competitive City Built Upon the Legacy System and Innovations

World Bank Group - 2016

This report presents the scope and findings of the Economic Sector Work on Sustainable Urban Transport for the City of Kyiv, financed jointly by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) and the Korea Green Growth Trust Fund (KGGTF). The analysis consists of a rigorous...

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Urban cycling tourism : how can bikes and public transport ride together for sustainability?

Crotti, Daniele; Maggi, Elena; Pantelaki, Evangelia - 2022

environments. Yet, when considering cycling tourists' intra-destination trips by motorized vehicles, the extent of greenhouse gas …-demographics, bike-related factors, travel characteristics, and the evaluation of cycling and accommodation features at destination. The …

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Estimating the effect of urban road congestion on air quality in Latin America

Bedoya-Maya, Felipe; Calatayud, Agustina; González … - 2022

Road congestion and air pollution are key challenges for quality of life in urban settings. This research leverages highly disaggregated crowdsourced data from Latin America to study the effect of road congestion on levels of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, and particulate matter in four of...

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South-South trade: geography matters

Coulibaly, Souleymane (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Public Procurement in the Belt and Road Initiative

Ghossein, Tania - 2018

China's "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) includes major infrastructure investment projects - roads, ports, railways - that aim to improve connectivity along a number of transport corridors spanning 71 countries. In this paper we find that notwithstanding the large scale of the initiative,...

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