This paper presents an approach to measuring the values of time cost for freight transportation, and examines its applicability through empirical analysis. We develop the method based on the hedonic approach by explicitly formulating how transport time is determined as market outcome. In the...

This paper explores patterns of governance and public finance in development through dissecting the substantiation of transportation infrastructure. We propose three propositions: modern society has increasing demands for government in promoting socio-economic progress; infrastructure is 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...

In this paper, we demonstrate how a new network performance/efficiency measure, which captures demands, flows, costs, and behavior on networks, can be used to assess the importance of network components and their rankings.We provide new results regarding the measure, which we refer to as the...

Transportation infrastructure is indispensable for the diversification of an economy. This paper investigates the empirical link between transportation infrastructure and diversification of the Nigerian economy. Descriptive demonstrations are adopted to provide a situational focus to the study,...

We examine the effect of transport infrastructure on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in OECD countries over a period of almost 150 years. To do so, we employ both parametric and non-parametric panel data techniques. With the parametric estimates, we find mixed evidence of a statistically...

We explore the impact of bicycle-sharing infrastructure on urban transportation. Accounting for selection bias in a matching framework, we estimate a causal effect of the Capital Bikeshare on traffic congestion in the metropolitan Washington, DC, area. We exploit a unique traffic dataset that is...

We analyze the effect of the Öresund Bridge, a combined railway and motorway bridge between Swedish Malmö and the Danish capital Copenhagen, on inventive activity in the region of Malmö. Applying difference-in-difference estimation on individual-level data, our findings suggest that the...

The Inca Empire was the last of a long series of highly developed cultures in pre-colonial South America. It stretched across parts of the current territories of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the whole of Peru. The Inca Road was its 30,000-kilometer-long transportation system....