We study the impact of a high-speed connection between two regional economies on the location of production activities, using the simple plant-location problem and toy networks. As expected, the relative value of fixed production costs to transportation costs is crucial in the determination of...

Les 30 dernières années ont montré le développement d'un nouveau type de développement urbain en France, appelé périurbanisation. Une ceinture périurbaine est située hors d'une ville et elle est occupée à la fois par des ménages et par des agriculteurs. Les auteurs proposent un...

A periurban belt is a zone located outside the city and characterized by a mix of farmers and commuting households. We develop a land use model in which we incorporate rural amenities in the utility function of the households, while assuming that farmers have a behavior à la Thünen. The land...

This paper reconsiders the production-location problem (PLP) initiated by Moses. The PLP is extended to allow for the geographical substitution between input sources, which is likely to occur in an integrated market. An algorithm is then proposed to solve this problem. Finally, using numerical...