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From ITS to C-ITS highway roadside infrastructure : the handicap of a headstart?
Degrande, Thibault; Vannieuwenborg, Frederic; Colle, Didier - 2021
To date, traffic remains a major source of societal costs in terms of safety and environment. In Flanders, as in other regions and Member States in the European Union, the government counts on current developments in cooperative, connected and autonomous mobility (CCAM) to achieve European...
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A post-opening transport infrastructure's socio-economic evaluation : the Case of "Attiki Odos Motorway" : 53rd ERSA Congress Regional Integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and th...
Belegri-Roboli, A.; Marinos, Th.; Markaki, M. - 2013
The purpose of this research is the post-opening evaluation of "Attiki Odos Motorway" (AOM) socio-economic impacts … framework, selected factors-criteria specified by the interaction mechanism between the motorway's operation and its socio …, supported by factual dataset. With regard to the empirical results, the socio-economic returns of the studied motorway, as they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515756
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Measuring the economic impact of a road construction project in an area in Japan : a simplified spatial computable general equilibrium modeling approach
Ha Thi Thu Trang; Miyata, Yuzuru - 2011
The study region named San-En-Nanshin region (includes Aichi, part of Nagano and Shizuoka prefecture) is considered as a model of integrated dispersed regions and taken into the National Comprehensive Development Plan of Japanese government under Regional Revitalization Project. A large scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523816
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Do road investments lead to economic growth?
Eriksen, Knut Sandberg - 2010
Road improvements lead to benefits in the form of e.g. reduced travelling time, improved traffic safety and reduced emissions. These improvements do not only benefit the actual road users, but they are also "spreading" into the local community or neighbouring communities through several types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560151
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Welfare impacts of road construction using a public-private partnership : a CGE analysis of a project
Fortuna, Mário José Amaral; Rege, Sameer - 2013
This paper analysis the welfare changes arising from a road project, undertaken as a public-private partnership, measured as the variation in utility, using a sequentially dynamic general equilibrium model. To circumvent the budget restriction imposed by the central government, the Azorean...
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Express delivery to the suburbs : transport infrastructure and European cities.
Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel; Pasidis, Ilias-Nikiforos; … - 2015 - (Preliminary revision)
The main goal of this paper is to provide evidence for the causal effect of the highway and railway infrastructure on the suburbanization of population in European cities. This is considered a major issue in Europe, which has never been studied before at this scale. We constructed a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477148
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Political risk on the Belt and Road
Morris, David - In: Business performance and financial institutions in …, (pp. 145-163). 2020
China's programme for inter-regional economic connectivity, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), will develop new trade routes and production chains linking predominantly developing world economies with the Chinese market, making a unique contribution to global economic development but disrupting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322196
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Public participation in selection of the road construction by Analytic Hierarchy Process for supporting of CO2 emissions reduction : Maros-Watampone road case
Wahyuni, Any; Miyata, Yuzuru - 2013
Maros-Watampone road passes through a critical geometric conservation area where it is a barrier to the development improvement. Previous studies recommend that three proposed alternative constructions can be used: 1. Elevated Bridge, 2. Cut and Fill, 3. Tunnel system. The Government invited...
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The effect of private road supply on the volume/capacity ratio when firms compete Stackelberg in Road Capacity
Berg, Vincent A. C. van den - 2011 - Version of 04 March 2011
We study road supply by competing firms between a single origin and destination. In previous studies, firms simultaneously set their tolls and capacities while taking the actions of the others as given in a Nash fashion. Then, under some widely used technical assumptions, firms set the same...
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Regional accessibility in Europe : changes in road infrastructure 1955-2012 : ERSA 2013, Palermo
Stelder, Dirk - 2013
This paper discusses the road accessibility for European cities and regions over the period 1955-2012. For this period a historical database of European roads networks has been constructed covering all EU27 countries. This database enables to evaluate to what extent EU infrastructure policy has...
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