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A Post-Opening Transport Infrastructure's Socio-Economic Evaluation: The Case of "Attiki Odos Motorway"
Belegri-Roboli, A.; Marinos, Th.; Markaki, M. - 2013
The purpose of this research is the post-opening evaluation of "Attiki Odos Motorway" (AOM) socio-economic impacts … employed as well as other factors. Clearly, future research on the subject would be of great interest. Keywords: "Attiki Odos … framework, selected factors-criteria specified by the interaction mechanism between the motorway's operation and its socio …
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A post-opening transport infrastructure's socio-economic evaluation : the Case of "Attiki Odos Motorway" : 53rd ERSA Congress Regional Integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and th...
Belegri-Roboli, A.; Marinos, Th.; Markaki, M. - 2013
The purpose of this research is the post-opening evaluation of "Attiki Odos Motorway" (AOM) socio-economic impacts … framework, selected factors-criteria specified by the interaction mechanism between the motorway's operation and its socio …, supported by factual dataset. With regard to the empirical results, the socio-economic returns of the studied motorway, as they …
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Does regional redistribution spur growth?
Koetter, Michael; Wedow, Michael - 2008
After the German reunification, interregional subsidies accounted for approximately four percent of gross fixed capital investment in the new federal states. We show that between 1992 and 2005 infrastructure and (small) business aid had a negative net impact on regional economic growth. This...
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Spatial Impact of Transportation Infrastructure: A Spatial Econometric CGE Approach
Chen, Zhenhua - 2013
Transportation infrastructure plays an important role in regional economic development both in the stimulation of growth and as a response to output expansion. However, measuring these effects quantitatively has been a challenge due to the complicated impact mechanisms of transportation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397326
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Planning for the Future: A Land-Use and Transport Interaction Model for Switzerland
Bodenmann, Balz R.; Sanchez, Breogan; Zeiler, Alexandra; … - 2014
Spatial and transport planners, authorities, real estate developers, investors, re-locating residents and businesses have different questions related to space and transport. These questions may concern specific land parcels, or cover a much larger area such as a city, a region, or even a whole...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400153
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Evaluation tool for wider economic effects of railway investments: Making computable general equilibrium model results accessible
Kinnunen, Jouko; Metsäranta, Heikki; Törmä, Hannu; … - 2015
Transport sector has a long tradition of using the principles of practical cost benefit analysis (CBA) in project appraisal that analyses the primary impacts of transport investments. The standard transport project assessment is necessary but not sufficient for the estimation of the wider...
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Regional Analysis of Domestic Integration in Egypt
Haddad, Eduardo; Lahr, Michael; Elshahawany, Dina; … - 2015
We develop an interregional computable general equilibrium model to help assess the ex ante impact of transportation infrastructure policies in Egypt. The model is integrated with a GIS network. We illustrate the analytical capabilities of the model by looking at the domestic integration of the...
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Illuminating the world cup effect: Night lights evidence from South Africa
Pfeifer, Gregor; Wahl, Fabian; Marczak, Martyna - 2016
This paper evaluates the economic impact of the $14 billion preparatory investments for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. We use satellite data on night light luminosity at municipality and electoral district level as a proxy for economic development, applying synthetic control methods...
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Challenges for urban sustainable mobility: Gdynia Maritime University case study
Kuzia, Michał; Przybyłowski, Adam - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 4, pp. 1071-1085
The sustainable development of the cities represents one of the major challenges for the future of the planet in the 21st century, relatively to the contribution and adaptation to climate change, natural resources consumption, energetic transition, population mobility, welfare and security,...
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High-speed railway, market access, and economic growth
Chen, Liangheng; Xiong, Junke - 2018
This paper establishes a general equilibrium trade model and adopts the "market access" approach to measure the impact of the high-speed railway (HSR) network on the economic growth of 110 of the main prefecture-level cities of the People's Republic of China, for which we manually collect the...
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