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Do parental perceptions of the neighbourhood environment influence children’s independent mobility? Evidence from Toronto, Canada
Mitra, Raktim; Faulkner, Guy EJ; Buliung, Ron N; Stone, … - In: Urban Studies 51 (2014) 16, pp. 3401-3419
Children’s independent mobility (CIM), or a child’s freedom to explore their neighbourhood unsupervised, is important for their psychological development and potentially enables daily physical activity. However, the correlates of CIM remain under-studied particularly in terms of...
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Renewable Energies: Challenges and Benefits
Pflüger, Antonio - In: South Asian Survey 17 (2010) 2, pp. 331-341
is, fuel for transportation, electricity, low temperature heat for space heating and hot water and, to a limited degree …
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Facilitating Trade and Improving Competitiveness through Improved Road Network: Issues and Way Forward
Mukherjee, Arpita; Pal, Parthapratim; Goswami, Ramneet - In: Foreign Trade Review 48 (2013) 2, pp. 247-254
Road transport play a key role in emerging markets like India in boosting economic development and trade, linking consumers across remote regions and in improving overall competitiveness of industries. Over the years, India has focused on creation of road infrastructure but the logistics costs...
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Rice trade in the ‘rice bowl of Bengal’: Burdwan 1880–1947
Dutta, Achintya Kumar - In: The Indian Economic & Social History Review 49 (2012) 1, pp. 73-104
Burdwan district, with its advantageous position in transportation network and good resource endowments, spontaneously …
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“The Spatial effects of transportation on industrial employment ”
Fageda, Xavier; Gonzalez-Aregall, Marta - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2014
This paper examines the direct and indirect impacts of transport infrastructure on industrial employment. We estimate regressions with spatial econometric methods using data from the Spanish regions for the period 1995-2008. We find that the density of motorways and the amount of port traffic...
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Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012
Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Do locational fundamentals such as coastlines and rivers determine town locations, or can historical events trap towns in unfavorable locations for centuries? We examine the effects on town locations of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which temporarily ended urbanization in Britain,...
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Roads and Innovation
Agrawal, Ajay; Galasso, Alberto; Oettl, Alexander - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We study the interplay between transportation infrastructure, knowledge flows, and innovation. Exploiting historical … transportation infrastructure may spur regional growth above and beyond the more commonly discussed agglomeration economies that are …
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Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity
Redding, Stephen J.; Turner, Matthew A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
economic activity and transportation costs. We develop a multi-region model of economic geography that we use to understand the … general equilibrium implications of transportation infrastructure improvements within and between locations for wages … effects of transportation infrastructure improvements on economic development, paying particular attention to the use of …
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The growth of cities
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Why do cities grow in population, surface area, and income per person? Which cities grow faster and why? To these questions, the urban growth literature has offered a variety of answers. Within an integrated framework, this chapter reviews key theories with implications for urban growth. It then...
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Transport and Environment
Puscaciu, Viorica; Mihalache, Mirela; Puscaciu, Rose-Marie - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 6 (2014) 3, pp. 96-99
transportation process. As an example it is presented a comparative analysis between Romania and European Union, as for the energy …
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