Intergenerational mobility and inequality are very important economic and social issues. This paper explores China’s National Trunk Highway System as a natural experiment and uses the Difference-in-Differences strategy to study the impact of access to transportation infrastructure on...

This study explores the impacts of transport infrastructure investments on the compactness of a city. We introduce two new factors into the conventional Alonso-Mills-Muth model: First, city residents consume differentiated service varieties; and second, they pay transport costs not only to go to...

As the largest-ever infrastructure project, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is expected to reshape the global economy for the coming decades. This paper provides the first analysis of BRI's effects on financial markets and real economic activity in Europe. It exploits the opening of a...

This study regards project management as a system, four types of disturbances caused by technological innovation and adaptive behaviors of management system are proposed based on the "structure-function" two-dimensional model. Resilience is introduced into mega transportation infrastructure...

In this paper the authors used econometric tools and techniques that are conventionally used in the estimation of relationship between and impact of different variables and their application features in the literature of transport economics. The study made an attempt to empirically analyze the...

Indore is the commercial capital of M.P., the centrally located province of India. An unprecedented welcome change ushered in the lives of local population here on the 57th Republic Day of the nation i.e. 26th Jan 2006 when ultra-modern-low-floor buses started plying on various routes of the...

Transportation costs and buyer market power reduce prices and income received by farmers in developing countries. Transportation costs directly affect the marketing margin and also exacerbate market power by limiting farmers' access to buyers. This article develops a multistage spatial model to...

The competitive position of sea ports depends on their capability to forward incoming cargo from overseas to its final destination. Such capability is associated with the hinterland connectivity of the sea port. Hinterland connectivity of a port is mostly treated as a local indicator, describing...

Infrastructural assets are vital for a country’s economic and social development. Governments typically provide the regulation and administration of these assets, while multinational enterprises (MNEs) develop, construct, finance, and operate them. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) promises...