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A sustainable development has become an important policy aim in many countries. This concept is recently fine-tuned towards clearly demarcated economic sectors, such as the transport sector. This article is about sustainable transport or mobility. A review is presented of various aspects that...
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The future of the transport sector is fraught with uncertainties, as the system is influenced by many factors. The aim of this paper is to offer insight into the future of this sector, seen from a European perspective, by applying a scenario approach and designing four possible paths of...
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Although the economic importance of adequate infrastructure is generally recognised, in practice decision-makers - faced with the judgement of new large infrastructure projects - are hesitant to approve such new projects because of the uncertainty in the related cost estimates. It is often...
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This paper aims to offer a new perspective on the productivity enhancing impact of public capital. In contrast to the majority of the literature which addresses mainly infrastructure effects on national or regional growth, the present contribution argues that a much broader analytical viewpoint...
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It may be clear that the future of the transport sector is fraught with uncertainties, as the system can be influenced by many factors that can develop in various ways. The aim of this paper is to get insight into the future development of the transportation sector seen from a world-wide...
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It is clear that the future of the transport sector is fraught withuncertainties, as the system can be influenced by many factors thatcan develop in various ways. The aim of this paper is to gain insightinto the future development of the transportation sector. It presentsthe development of the...
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This review considers the role of environmental effects in transport investment appraisal, mainly from the perspective of cost-benefit analysis, the most widely adopted appraisal technique. Although the basic principles of CBA are straightforward, several complications are identified that may...
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