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This paper aims to examine how technical infrastructure networks may contribute to improving the competitiveness of the Hungarian economy. Consequently, our main question will be to establish how certain networks or sectors can promote competitiveness of the entire economy rather than how they...
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What is the impact of modern transportation technology on long-run economic change in poor countries with high trade costs?  Rail construction in colonial Sub-Saharan Africa provides a natural experiment: 90% of African rail-road lines were built before independence, in a context where...
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This paper demonstrates how the transformation of the taxi industry is an example of Coase’s Theorem in practice. The Coase Theorem, as postulated by Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase (1991), is one of the simplest yet profound ideas in economics. The recent advent of new mobile app entrants in the...
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The main objective of this study is to examine the reduction in the number of road accidents in the metropolitan area … Colombian road safety. That way, we find that the annual aggregate benefit of decreasing traffic fatalities in AMBAQ was US$ 1 …
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The objective of the PROSPECTS project (5th Framework Programme of the EU), is to provide cities with guidance to generate optimal land use and transport strategies to meet the challenge of sustainability in their particular circumstances. The methodology has consisted of a width survey of 54...
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This paper estimates Nash-type fiscal reaction functions for European governments competing for revenue from diesel excises. It appears that European governments strategically set their excise levels by responding to their neighbors’ tax rates. This provides evidence for the presence of tax...
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urbanization is higher around train stations, but the effect of railway travel on road congestion is small. By contrast, if train … stations are omnipresent there is little effect on urban spatial structure, but a considerable decrease in congestion. With … regard to the supply of train stations, these findings suggest that there is an important policy trade-off between congestion …
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In this study we have analysed policy interactions between an urban and a regional government which have different objectives (welfare of its own citizens) and two policy instruments (toll and capacity) available. Using a simulation model, we investigated the welfare consequences of the various...
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issues like congestion and directional asymmetries in demand, differentiated supply in terms of vehicle size and in …
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earlier flight. We show that the expected user costs of US air traffic delays are underestimated by 16% if arrival delay …
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