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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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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...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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