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planning, which aims at reducing land consumption caused by urban sprawl. In this paper, a logit model is computed to assess …
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Across the United States, metropolitan areas face challenges related to transportation and land use. An emerging policy in many regions is to promote development around higher-density, mixed-use (smart-growth) centers that create locally accessible nodes; many of these nodes are also linked to...
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This essay argues that many of the assumptions that have been made about sprawl are misleading or just wrong. Nowhere … impaired accessibility for a large part of the population. At very least, the debates over sprawl have pitted private vs …
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Relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between commute time variances and city size. In this paper, we utilize 2009 Nationwide Highway Travel Survey data and test the relationship between area commute-time means as well as variances in metropolitan-area size. We include...
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Relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between commute time variances and city size. In this paper, we utilize 2009 Nationwide Highway Travel Survey data and test the relationship between area commute-time means as well as variances in metropolitan-area size. We include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184010
The European Transport Industry has been heavily deregulated during the past 30 years, through initiatives that … opening the transport industry have had. By analyzing current data, the impact of economic deregulation on the volume of … transport industry production is studied. The empirical evidence confirm the positive impact on the system wide level suggesting …
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emissions from land transport. In contrast, this paper finds a positive relationship between per capita CO2 emissions from … transport and population density using a dataset of over 200 cities from 28 countries. This positive relationship holds when a … the estimated relationship between urban population density and emissions from transport is different across the two …
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The individual's perception of transport cost usually does not include the full social cost of transport, as in for … social transport cost and welfare. In order to overcome this paradox, we need to induce a shift from the limited …-making process. Transport accessibility is here examined as a merit good and we therefore assume the necessity for government …
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important energy, trade and transport networks which connect west to east and north to south are keys to unleashing this … by road in Turkey. This dependence on road transport creates imbalance in favour of road transport. Indications such as … customs constraints are some examples. The changing context of international transport has prompted Turkish international road …
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population of a city depends negatively on transport costs that are related positively with energy price index. The optimal … high transport costs. Due to large distances it is optimal to return to gasoline and thus transport subsidy. This will work …
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