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The Privatization of Roads & Highways : Human and Economic Factors

Block, Walter E. - 2011

This work is dedicated to my fellow Americans, some 40,000 of them per year who have died needlessly in traffic fatalities. It is my sincere hope and expectation that under a system of private roads and highways in the future, that this number may be radically reduced

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Rejoinder to Carnis on Private Roads

Block, Walter E. - 2011

horrid subject many times during the intervening thirty year period. Until Tullock (1996) my writing on road privatization … different matter, in my view. In this case, while I acknowledge that he has continued to build onto the road privatization …

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Highway to Hell? Interstate Highway System and Crime

Calamunci, Francesca; Lonsky, Jakub - 2022

The United States witnessed an unprecedented crime wave in the second half of the twentieth century, with the total index crime rate more than tripling between 1960-1980. Little is known about the causes of this surge in criminal activity across the country. This paper investigates the role...

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Der Ausbauwert von Strassen

Rothschuh, Bruno - 1962

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Roads to innovation : evidence from Italy

Bottasso, Anna; Conti, Maurizio; Robbiano, Simone; … - In: Journal of regional science 62 (2022) 4, pp. 981-1005

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Market access and firm performance : evidence based on GIS analysis of road network and manufacturing-plant-level data from India

Sharma, Somnath; Kant, Shashi; Mishra, Ranjeeta; … - 2022

This paper investigates whether better access to markets through an improved road network plays a role in improving the … profitability of firms in India. We construct a district-level market access index using Indian road network shapefiles, district … boundaries, and nightlight raster images and estimate the shortest driving distances for districts using the road network. Using …

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