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The paper is devoted to analytical investigation of the division of geographical space into urban and rural areas with … application to Russia. Yegorov (2005, 2006, 2009) has suggested the role of population density on economics. A city has an … population of a city depends negatively on transport costs that are related positively with energy price index. The optimal …
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Urban sprawl has been criticized for its disproportionate impact on the environment. Yet urban areas are in fact less … land-intensive than recent rural development patterns. Residential first-movers into such virgin areas may spark waves of … developments. Evidence regarding regional land-use intensities, path-dependence of rural development, and accumulating social costs …
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Urban expansion of the city of Tunis, source of distortion of inter-zones balance between housing supply and employment … infrastructure in terms of congestion and on the environment in terms of pollution. This study tried to detect urban expansion … is inspired by the standard models of the urban economy. Negative and significant signs of density gradients for the …
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The paper aims to provide an analysis for different urban mobility policies in terms of local and global pollutants … transport fleets renewal, public transport electrification, mobility management). The analysis will provide the amount of … (fleets, local transport share, …). This allows a general “rank” of possible procedures in terms of emissions reduction in …
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This paper revises the underlining principles of the European transport policy and analizes how these principle have …/unbundling of infrastructure and services as a mechanism which favors the introduction of competition; the use of optimal transport …
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This paper develops formulations for estimating the economic welfare impacts of transport strategies that change land … use. The formulations seek to use outputs of transport modelling typically used for transport appraisal. …
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, where productivity is higher and has increased further thanks to agglomeration effects. In the process, the rural-urban … so as public transport provision has not kept up. Demand for living space is set to continue to increase as living … standards improve, putting pressure on land prices. This can be offset by relaxing the very stringent restrictions on the use of …
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This publication aims to bridge the gap between the analysis of the trends in the European transport system and the … upcoming innovations which can have a considerable impact on the global demand patterns for the passenger and freight transport … research strategies. The goal is to investigate the challenges for the European transport sector in the long term, in order to …
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for the analysis of employment and skills issues in the EU transport sector, with the purpose of designing the policies … the development of employment in various transport sectors from different viewpoints, and by means of a variety of … number of employees required in order to meet the future transport activity). In doing so it aims to identify the gap between …
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and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while … the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …
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