Climate Change driven evolution of hazards to Europe’s transport infrastructure throughout the twenty-first century
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DOI: 10.1007/s00704-017-2127-4
Abstract: Road authorities, freight, and logistic industries face a multitude of challenges in a world changing at an ever growing pace. While globalization, changes in technology, demography, and traffic, for instance, have received much attention over… read more here.
Keywords: transport infrastructure; winter; climate; climate change ... See more keywords
A model for optimization of transport infrastructure for some homogeneous goods markets
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DOI: 10.1007/s10898-019-00785-y
Abstract: The optimization problem studied in this paper generalizes the standard transportation problem and turns out to be NP-hard under the positive fixed costs of the transmission lines expansion. For a market with a tree-type network,… read more here.
Keywords: optimization; problem; infrastructure homogeneous; optimization transport ... See more keywords
The urbanisation-environment conflict: Insights from material stock and productivity of transport infrastructure in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113007
Abstract: Developing regions experience rapid population growth and urbanisation, which require large quantities of materials for civil infrastructure. The production of construction materials, especially for urban transport systems, however, contributes to local and global environmental change.… read more here.
Keywords: transport infrastructure; material stock; stock; stock productivity ... See more keywords
Spatio-temporal evolution of cities and regional economic development in Nepal: Does transport infrastructure matter?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102904
Abstract: Abstract The literature on the New Economic Geography (NEG) suggests that transport cost is a major driving factor for the emergence of core–periphery patterns within a country. However, very few studies have tested this theoretical… read more here.
Keywords: regional economic; geography; transport; infrastructure ... See more keywords
Simulating the impact of transport infrastructure investment on wages: A dynamic spatial panel model approach
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DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2018.12.004
Abstract: This paper estimates the impact of a multi-billion pound investment in Britain's rail transport infrastructure, in the form of high-speed rail links, on wage levels across each of 347 districts of England and Wales. The… read more here.
Keywords: panel model; spatial panel; dynamic spatial; investment ... See more keywords
An Australian perspective on real-life cost-benefit analysis and assessment frameworks for transport infrastructure investments
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DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2020.100946
Abstract: Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the most commonly used economic assessment tool for transport infrastructure investments. There are radically different approaches to its use across the world, highlighting the need for local research. While CBA is… read more here.
Keywords: transport infrastructure; cba; infrastructure investments; australian perspective ... See more keywords
Causality between transportation infrastructure and economic development in Pakistan: An ARDL analysis
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DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2020.100974
Abstract: Abstract This paper examines the relationship between transport infrastructure and economic development in Pakistan. An autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) and vector error correction model (VECM) is applied over the period 1971–2017. The results indicate that… read more here.
Keywords: infrastructure; economic development; transport infrastructure; infrastructure economic ... See more keywords
Transport infrastructure and industrial output in Pakistan: An empirical investigation
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DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2021.101040
Abstract: Abstract Development of transport infrastructure is considered to be a key factor in contributing socio-economic development. This research contributes towards the existing literature by analyzing the impact of different types of transport infrastructure (i.e., roads,… read more here.
Keywords: output pakistan; infrastructure; output; industrial output ... See more keywords
Debunking fake news in a post-truth era: The plausible untruths of cost underestimation in transport infrastructure projects
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2018.04.019
Abstract: The methodology, analysis, and the unfounded conclusions presented in the paper “Underestimating costs in public works projects: error or lie?” by Flyvbjerg, Holm, and Buhl (2002), published in the Journal of the American Planning Association… read more here.
Keywords: infrastructure projects; infrastructure; transport infrastructure; cost ... See more keywords
Measuring the value for money of transport infrastructure procurement; an intergenerational approach
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2018.11.013
Abstract: Abstract Cost-benefit analysis is essential for decision-making in connection with major transport projects and integrated investment programmes. Projects of transport infrastructure have traditionally been publicly promoted and managed, but funded through both public and private… read more here.
Keywords: project; transport; value money; transport infrastructure ... See more keywords
Make friends, not money: How Chinese enterprises select transport infrastructure investment locations along the Belt and Road
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.12.005
Abstract: Abstract Since the 2013 launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which has long been recognized as one of the most complex international cooperation activities, a large proportion of the 90 billion in Chinese… read more here.
Keywords: enterprises select; belt road; transport infrastructure; infrastructure ... See more keywords