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Kleinert, Jörn; Spies, Julia - 2011 - Preliminary version

This paper claims that distance alone is a poor proxy for international transport costs in gravity equations. We develop a theoretical framework with a manufacturing and a transport sector, where the level of manufacturing exports determines the demand for transport. Above a certain threshold,...

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Euclidean distance versus travel time in business location : a probabilistic mixture of hurdle-Poisson models : 55th ERSA Congress 2015, Lisbon

Buczkowska, Sabina; Coulombel, Nicolas; De Lapparent, … - 2015

While the question of the specification of spatial weight matrix is now largely discussed in the spatial econometrics literature, the definition of distance has attracted less attention. The choice of the distance measure is often glossed over, with the ultimate use of the Euclidean distance....

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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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Do more trucks lead to more motor vehicle fatalities in European roads? : evaluating the impact of specific safety strategies

Castillo-Manzano, José I.; Castro-Nuño, Mercedes; … - 2015

Truck operations have recently become an important focus of academic research not only because road freight transport …) to counteract the safety externalities of freight transportation in the European Union. In certain sense, our study might …. In this respect, there is an increasing focus at the European level on how freight transport can be moved from trucks on …

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High speed rail and tourism : empirical evidence from Spain's provinces and cities

Albalate, Daniel - 2015

comparing the before and after situation. Our preliminary results indicate that High speed rail accessibility does not promote …

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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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Does public transit reduce car travel externalities? : quasi-natural experiments' evidence from transit strikes

Adler, Martin W; Ommeren, Jos van - 2015

for Los Angeles. Anderson (2014) finds a substantial congestion relief benefit with a decrease in time delays experienced … public transit modes (e.g. bus, light rail) that are citywide. Third, we examine the strike effect on car speed (and flow …

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Airport size and urban growth

Sheard, Nicholas - 2015

This paper estimates the effects of airports on economic growth in US metropolitan areas. The estimation uses a novel technique to identify the effects of changes in local airport sizes from overall changes in the air travel network. Airport size is found to have a positive effect on local...

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Garage and curbside parking competition with search congestion

Inci, Eren; Lindsey, Robin - 2014

In many downtown areas, privately operated parking garages compete with each other and with publicly operated curbside parking. Garages exercise market power by charging fees that vary with parking duration. Curbside space is scarce, and drivers have to search for it. This creates a congestion...

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Light aviation and flight safety : monitoring system for unpressurised cabins : flight and physiological data acquisition

Marques, André; Zorro, Sara; Silva, Jorge; Patrão, Luís - 2012

The majority of light aviation aircrafts cabins are unpressurised and this may pose risks for the safety of both pilots and passengers. As altitude increases partial oxygen pressure decreases and this situation may lead to early stages of hypoxia affecting pilot's capabilities to perform simple...

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