The new economic geography depicts spatial location as the key factor determining the growth performance of an economy and thus provides one of the most suitable frameworks to the study of transport infrastructures. The purpose of this paper is to exploit some of the analytical tools familiar to...

Regional countable models represent a traditional method of evaluating the longterm economic effects of transport infrastructure projects. The countable model of economic geography for municipal administrations of the Russian Federation developed by the experts of the Institute of Sectoral...

This chapter surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between the spatial distribution of economic activity and transportation costs. We develop a multiregion model of economic geography that we use to understand the general equilibrium implications of transportation...