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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"
Marinos, Theocharis - European Regional Science Association - 2013
The purpose of this research is the post-opening evaluation of "Attiki Odos Motorway" (AOM) socio-economic impacts …: "Attiki Odos Motorway", socio-economic impacts, Multi-Criteria Analysis, Overall Returns Index. … motorway, as they occurred from the formula, are high. This means that, on average, the selected sub-criteria and thus the …
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Highway to Success : The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William - 2012
We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...
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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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Spatial impact of transportation infrastructure : a spatial econometric CGE approach
Chen, Zhenhua - 2013
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Does regional redistribution spur growth?
Koetter, Michael (contributor); Wedow, Michael (contributor) - 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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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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Spatial Impact of Transportation Infrastructure : A Spatial Econometric Computable General Equilibrium Approach
Chen, Zhenhua - 2014
This study introduces a new method called Spatial Econometric Computable General Equilibrium (SECGE) model, which integrates both spatial econometrics with computable general equilibrium modeling to improve the effectiveness of impact analysis on transportation infrastructure. Elasticities of...
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The Impact of High-Speed Rail Investment on Economic and Environmental Change in China : A Dynamic CGE Analysis
Chen, Zhenhua - 2015
This study investigates the impact of high-speed rail investment on the economy and environment in China using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model with a focus on the period 2002-2013. The analysis is implemented in a dynamic recursive framework capturing long-run capital accumulation...
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Quantifying the economic and social impacts of high-speed rail : some evidence from Europe and the People's Republic of China
Chen, Chia-lin; Vickerman, Roger W. - 2019
In recent years there has been an increasing move towards allowing for impacts beyond the direct user benefits and costs in the appraisal of transport investments. Much of the interest to date has been in justifying the inclusion of such wider impacts as a genuine net addition to a cost-benefit...
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