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generated by transnational transport projects. In the transportation economics literature, the economic impact of infrastructure …
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to Argentina are estimated to be US $47.0 million and those accrue to Uruguay are about US $41.8 million. Brazilian …In this paper, we examine the impact of transnational transportation projects on cargo traffic and the distribution of … investment cost of the bridge. For regionally traded goods, consumers in Argentina and producers in Brazil would share equally …
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The Eje Vial del Cono Sur is a project to develop a road in Uruguay from Colonia to Rio Branco on the northern border … Aires in Argentina and Sao Paulo in Brazil. The implementation of this project depends on the construction of a bridge to … Highway would be a toll road. The initial plan of the government of Uruguay is to award a concession to a domestic investor to …
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, and the governments of Argentina and Uruguay in supportive roles. The main objectives of this paper are to assess the … project from the viewpoint of the concessionaire by the financial appraisal and the governments of Argentina and Uruguay …, a city in Uruguay. It is planned to involve a private concessionaire for design, construction, operation and maintenance …
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We examine effects of urban passenger rail upgrades to Auckland's Western Line, including double tracking, station development, and related urban renewal projects. The results are used to assess anticipated net benefits of the developments. The rail-related upgrades are expected to be completed...
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In this paper we develop a framework to value public investments with the purpose of increasing bicycling that explicitly accounts internal costs of bicycling, which are typically neglected in current established approaches that value bicycle spending by means of gross health benefits alone, as...
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This paper identifies the causal impact of urban rail transport on firm location. The evaluation of transport infrastructures always faces an important issue of endogeneity since rail lines are not randomly located. We use the natural experiment offered by the Regional Express Rail (RER) in the...
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The single largest project under the Irish National Development Plan (NDP) 2007-2013, is the construction of a Metro system. Despite the fact that this is the largest project under the NDP and the government's transport strategy, Transport 21, no cost benefit analysis on the project has been...
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The spatial concentration of production and population to urban areas is an important theme in societal discussion. The spatial concentration of economic activity is called agglomeration in urban economics. The economic impact of agglomeration is seen in the productivity of firms. Understanding...
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One of the core aims of transportation policies is to facilitate people's access to employment, health and education opportunities as well as cultural and leisure activities. Nonetheless, transport research and policies in Brazil are still largely focused on the challenges of reducing road...
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