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A Post-Opening Transport Infrastructure¢s Socio-Economic Evaluation: The Case of "Attiki Odos Motorway"
Marinos, Theocharis - European Regional Science Association - 2013
The purpose of this research is the post-opening evaluation of "Attiki Odos Motorway" (AOM) socio-economic impacts …: "Attiki Odos Motorway", socio-economic impacts, Multi-Criteria Analysis, Overall Returns Index. … motorway, as they occurred from the formula, are high. This means that, on average, the selected sub-criteria and thus the …
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The Inversion of the Land Gradient in the Inner City of Haifa, Israel
Plaut, Pnina O. - 2014
While suburbanization and decentralization are familiar concepts in urban economics, there is a possibility that land gradients will not simply flatten over time, but actually invert themselves. This would mean that the traditional CBD or downtown ceases to act as the pinnacle or nucleus of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752031
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How scale and institutional setting explain the costs of small airports? -An application of spatial regression analysis
Ülkü, Tolga; Jeleskovic, Vahidin; Müller, Jürgen - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014
One of the main pillars of efficient airport operations is cost-minimization. Unit costs of operation with respect to the level of passengers served are a possible proxy to measure the cost efficiency of an airport. Due to compound production framework and sophisticated political-economic...
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The automotive industry regional development challenges in Central and Eastern Europe
Uszkai, Andrea; Jóna, László - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
This paper focuses on the Central and Eastern – European (CEE) region. Its background means an analysis related to the automotive industry, which is a part of a large Hungarian, EU supported research project*. Our aim was to explore what kind of features all of the European settlements have...
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AS OPÇÕES PARA A LOCALIZAÇÃO DO NOVO TERMINAL DE CONTENTORES DO PORTO DE LISBOA: Anteprojecto sobre a viabilidade de um terminal de Contentores no Barreiro
Moreira, Paulo Pires - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper aims to shed light over the options to relocate the current Container Terminal of St. ª Apolónia in the port of Lisbon, to allow the construction of the new Cruise Terminal. Additionally, underlying this purpose is also to valuing city´s shoreline (in its environmental, tourist and...
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The Development of Short Sea Shipping in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Towards a Rational E.U. Freight Transport Policy
Sambracos, Evangelos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The rise in worldwide goods transport is an important factor in the increase of national GDP’s, but at the same time it poses serious threats in terms of the quality of life, mainly regarding the population in developed countries, who are however the main beneficiaries of the resulting...
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A ANÁLISE DE SINES COMO ATIVO GEOESTRATÉGICO NACIONAL: UM CLUSTER SUPORTADO NAS REDES MARÍTIMAS MUNDIAIS
Moreira, Paulo Pires - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
ABSTRACT The current competition in port activity is not just a competition between ports but in terms of logistics networks to which they belong. If the geographic scope of competition corresponds to its competitive hinterland, the corresponding phase, the port regionalization of the...
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Análisis del impacto social de las inversiones públicas en infraestructuras. La huella social
Pegnalver, Domingo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The welfare and social peace are the most important concepts when making policy decisions and investment spending of public resources. Currently both welfare and social peace are compromised by the lack of productive capital and excess of speculative capital, the imbalance between suffering...
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Transportation and Communication Infrastructure in Latin America: Lessons from Asia
Kotschwar, Barbara - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2012
In Latin America, inadequate transportation infrastructure has been identified as an increasingly important impediment to the region's further integration in global trade and a significant factor preventing countries from properly taking advantage of the multitude of regional, plurilateral, and...
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Economics and Politics of Infrastructure Investments in Italy
Balassone, Fabrizio; Crescenzi, Riccardo - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2012) 1
The generalised economic downturn in developed countries and the significant constraints on both their monetary and fiscal policies have prompted new infrastructure investments as a tool to promote economic growth. However, both the critical analysis of the existing academic literature and the...
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