Two most challenging problems facing transportation planners and policymakers in many developing countries are rapid urban traffic growth and lack of financial and technical resources to conduct major planning studies, especially for assessing the impacts of new sites and land-uses. The...

A basic tenet of economics posits that when consumers or firms don't face the true social cost of their actions, market outcomes are inefficient. In the case of negative externalities, Pigouvian taxes are one way to correct this market failure, where the optimal tax leads agents to internalize...

TRT Trasporti e Territorio (Milano) The transport sector is facing big challenges, such as the need for reducing greenhouse gases and the pressure on fossil fuels price. Tackling such challenges requires structural changes and policy should play a steering role. Therefore, transport policy...

The eco-efficiency situation is more present as we become more aware of the fact that nature has provided and continues to offer a variety of production and consumption goods, but one individual has to adjust responsibly to the natural capital in order to understand the need for using it in a...

This article interrogates over 30 years of transport and economics research into the relationships between transport investments and desirable economic development results. It finds the evidence in favour of this virtuous relationship at best weak and in most respects non-existent. Investing in...

An article about the directions and priorities of the regional policy of the state to regulate the regional water consumption in the Omsk region. The authors analyze the situation with the water consumption in China, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation, as well as alternative ways of solving...

This article interrogates over 30 years of transport and economics research into the relationships between transport investments and desirable economic development results. It finds the evidence in favour of this virtuous relationship at best weak and in most respects non-existent. Investing in...

In the neoclassic root theory it tries to resolve the environmental and social contradiction between economic growth of mobility and the environmental and social limits through the internalization of the denominated external costs of transport. Both the theoretical point of view and the...

This paper uses the 2011 Phoenix Area Social Survey to evaluate the plausibility of the assumptions made with pure characteristics or vertical sorting models to rationalize incomplete stratification of households across local communities by income. The analysis with a well-recognized index of...