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Estimation of social costs of highways in Japan
Mizutani, Fumitoshi; Suzuki, Yusuke; Uranishi, Shuji - 2015
The main purpose of this paper is to estimate and evaluate the social costs of highways in Japan. In general, with more people concerned about protecting the environment at both local and global levels, dependence on vehicular transportation in cities has brought about problems. Too much...
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Political and public acceptability of congestion pricing : ideology and self interest
Hårsman, Björn; Quigley, John M. - 2009
Studies of the "stated preferences" of households generally report public and political opposition by urban commuters to congestion pricing. It is thought that this opposition inhibits or precludes tolls and pricing systems that would enhance efficiency in the use of scarce roadways. This paper...
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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...
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The political economy of cordon tolls
De Borger, Bruno L.; Russo, Antonio - 2015 - Preliminary draft
Political acceptability is the primary obstacle to implementation of road pricing in many cities. This paper studies the political economy of urban road pricing in its most common incarnation: cordon tolling. We relate voters' preferences for the road toll to its impact on the city's land...
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Enhancing a better operation management of Indonesian toll road
Karsaman, Rudy Hermawan; Weningtyas, Widyarini - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 5 (2015) 1, pp. 296-303
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Verkehrsinfrastrukturgesellschaft : eine ordnungspolitische Lösung gegen Erhaltungskrisen und Staus auf den Straßen
Hartwig, Karl-Hans - In: Wirtschaftspolitik im Wandel : Ordnungsdefizite und …, (pp. 343-366). 2018
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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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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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Highways and spatial location within cities : evidence from India
Ghani, Ejaz; Grover, Arti; Kerr, William R. - In: Papers and proceedings of the Annual Bank Conference on …, (pp. 97-108). 2016
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An input-output analysis of environmental effects of infrastructure investments in the Greek economy : the case of "Attiki Odos" motorway
Belegri-Roboli, Athena; Demertzi, Aggeliki; Markaki, Maria - 2010
This paper calculates the environmental effects of the Attiki Odos (AOD) motorway investment expenditures in the Athens …
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