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and the United States, very few examine the potential impacts of both tolls and exchange rates on the various traffic …, variations in the real exchange rate, and changes in real toll tariffs all influence cross border traffic volumes. Tolls on … northbound traffic into the United States are assessed by Mexico. The results also indicate that tolls can provide a reliable …
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A reliable, cost-effective and safe transportation system is essential to economic growth. To keep pace with demands for network capacity, revenue-generating projects are increasingly being used to complement the current procurement practices and lessen the pressure on public finances. In such...
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Optimism bias is a consistent feature associated with truck toll forecasts, à la Standard & Poor’s and the NCHRP synthesis reports. Given the persistent problem, two major sources of this bias are explored. In particular, the ignorance of operating cost as a demand-side factor and lack of...
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system) for all intercity expressway routes. The costs of each route were to be recovered by tolls paid by its users, cross …
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of its essentially car‐based transportation policy. It also suggests the implementation of traffic permits or tolls to …
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sector, dry-land agriculture, hydropower, roads infrastructure costs and sea level rise. These factors have not been … impacts are showed to be potentially significant particularly resulting from additional roads infrastructure costs and …
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-poor. Estimates show that investments in sealing roads to nearest towns led to higher consumption levels and housing quality, and to …
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There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to...
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This paper evaluates the performance of Poisson and negative binomial (NB) regression models in establishing the relationship between truck accidents and geometric design of road sections. Three types of models are considered. Poisson regression, zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) regression, and NB...
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Geothermal development in The Geysers KGRA has affected local public services and fiscal resources in Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino, and Napa counties. Each of these counties underwent rapid population growth between 1970 and 1980, some of which can be attributed to geothermal development. The number...
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