In 2009, President Barak Obama allocated $8 billion in stimulus funding for high speed rail projects across the United States. One year later, in 2010, an additional $2.5 billion was distributed to corridors with High Speed Rail Projects. Even though the most recent congressional budget...

The institutional changes in Brazilian port administration were made to change the behavior of demand and in investments infrastructure of the Brazilian ports. The Brazilian acts also improve the relation and intervention of international authorities in the ports operation. As result, in the...

The development of toll road infrastructure in Indonesia is still slow down, if we compare the growth of toll road before crisis from 1978 until 1998 was 13.66% and after the crisis from 1999 to 2010 was 2.14%. Otherwise, the length of toll road in Indonesia until now has 742 km, operated by...

In this paper we analyze the impact of motorway networks on production for a panel of twenty one manufacturing and service sectors of eleven EU countries observed over the period 1980-2003. In particular, we analyze if the degree of regulation of the road transport sector affects the link...

One important issue facing reformers considering the restructuring of the seaports and freight railways sectors of a developing country is the creation of competition - or, alternatively, avoiding the creation or preservation of monopoly power. In seaports a crucial distinction is often that...

This article suggests ways to build toll free national highways in quick time. The expansion of the road network in the future needs huge amount of investment which has to be collected from the users. I suggest that the users are divided into two categories the rich pay and the poor do not. The...

Russian Abstract: В данной статье рассматриваются некоторые теоретические основы влияния транспортной инфраструктуры на экономику региона. На основании официальных...