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Self Organization of Surface Transportation Networks

Levinson, David; Yerra, Bhanu - Networks, Economics and Urban Systems Research Group … - 2006

This research investigates the self-organization of surface transportation networks. Using a travel demand model coupled with revenue, cost, and investment models, experiments are run under a variety of parameters on a grid network. It is found that roads, contiguous sections of multiple links...

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Area Based Models of New Highway Route Growth

Levinson, David; Chen, Wei - Networks, Economics and Urban Systems Research Group … - 2007

Empirical data and statistical models are used to answer the question of where new highway routes are most likely to be located. High-quality land-use, population distribution and highway network GIS data for the Twin CitiesMetropolitan Area from 1958 to 1990 are developed for this study. The...

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Modeling the Growth of Transportation Networks: A comprehensive review

Xie, Feng; Levinson, David - Networks, Economics and Urban Systems Research Group … - 2007

This paper reviews the progress that has been made over the last half-century in modeling and analyzing the growth of transportation networks. An overview of studies has been provided following five main streams: network growth in transport geography; traffic flow, transportation planning, and...

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Jurisdictional Control and Network Growth

Xie, Feng; Levinson, David - Networks, Economics and Urban Systems Research Group … - 2007

Transport infrastructure evolves over time in a complex process as part of a dynamic and open system including travel demand, land use, as well as economic and political initiatives. As transport infrastructure changes, each traveler may adopt a new schedule, frequency, destination, mode, and/or...

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How Land Use Shapes the Evolution of Road Networks

Levinson, David; Yerra, Bhanu - Networks, Economics and Urban Systems Research Group … - 2006

The present research develops an agent-based model to treat the organization, growth, and contraction of network elements. The components model travel demand, revenue, cost, and investment. Revenue earned by links in excess of maintenance costs is invested on the link to until all revenue is...

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Technical and Institutional Interrelatedness in British Rail Coal Haulage: a Re-Appraisal

Scott, P. - Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth - 1998

This article examines the nature, and economic impact, of interelatedness in British rail coal haulage prior to the Second World War. It takes issue with recent work by Van Vleck, which argues that the inefficiencies imposed by small coal wagons were not substantial and that they offered...

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Railways and the Productivity Gap in Italy: Persistence and Divergence after Unification

Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large infrastructure project to spread railways, which were largely confined in … Northern Italy, all over the country. Using tools from spatial econometrics, we find that railways played a positive effect on … productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …

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Full steam ahead: Insider knowledge, stock trading and the nationalization of the railways in Prussia around 1879

Buchner, Michael; Jopp, Tobias A. - 2019

The costs and benefits of insider trading is a persistent topic in the economic literature and public discourse alike. Nowadays insider trading is principally illegal and morally banned implying that the costs are supposed to weigh heavier than the potential benefits. We study insider trading...

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Railways and the productivity gap in Italy : persistence and divergence after unification

Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

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What caused the failure of nationalisation of the railway system in Germany? : Malfunction of the German Imperial Railway Office (Reichseisenbahnamt) in the 1870s and 1880s.

Banzawa, Ayumu - Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University - 2012

Imperial Chancellor (Reichskanzler). The REA was not able to keep railways in the Reich (unified Germany) under its perfect …

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