Regional Economic Impacts of Highway Projects
نویسندگان
چکیده
Interregional transport infrastructure represents some of the largest public investment programs in developing countries. The objectives are typically to increase economic efficiency—overall economic growth—as well as spatial equity—helping lagging areas of a country to catch up with leading ones. But recent theoretical and empirical work on the ‘new economic geography’ suggests that, at least initially, lowering transport costs may reinforce concentration of economic activity. This paper describes ongoing research, building on the work by Krugman and others, to develop a geographically explicit framework for assessing the impacts of large scale transport investments on regional economies. The goal is to develop tools for ex-ante impact evaluation that complement macro-economic approaches as well as engineering-oriented operational practice. We illustrate our approach with an application to China’s massive expansion of highways, the National Expressway Network (NEN).
منابع مشابه
Review of Methods for Estimating the Economic Impact of Transportation Improvements
Transportation analysts and the public decision-makers they support are confronted with a broad range of analytical tools for estimating the economic impacts of improvements to transportation networks. Many of the available models operate at different scales and have distinctly different structures, making them more or less appropriate for analyzing the impacts of different types of projects. H...
متن کاملA Framework for Economic Evaluation of Highway Development Projects Based on Network-level Life Cycle Cost Analysis
For economic evaluation of a highway development project, multiple criteria must be considered on a timeframe longer than the project implementation interval and a geographical area larger than the project zone. In this study, a framework is proposed based on the Network-Level Life Cycle Cost Analysis (NL-LCCA) to assess the effect of highway development projects on mobility, safety, economy, e...
متن کاملRegional Transport Development and Urban Economic Isolation; Analysis of Paradoxical Consequences in Qazvin- Rasht Highway Construction: Loshan City, Iran
متن کامل
Economic Impacts from Development of the Coastal Town in Queensland on Tourism and Regional Economy
This paper discusses the impacts of proposed development projects at Emu Park—a coastal town in Queensland, Australia—on regional economy. The input–output (IO) analysis is used to assess the economic benefits to the region. The economic impacts from the construction stage are identified. The ongoing benefits from the projects to the regional economy due to a potential increase in tourists’ vis...
متن کاملDEVELOPING THE LSM VPR SCHEDULING METHOD FOR SCHEDULING HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BASED ON EFFECTIVE FACTORS ON EMBANKMENT ACTIVITY PRODUCTIVITY
Highway construction projects are one of the most important construction projects in the world. Therefore predicting the time of these kinds of projects is important. Basically highway projects are including few activities which are repeating along the horizontal direction. One of the best methods for scheduling these types of projects is linear scheduling method. The repetitive nature of the h...
متن کامل