the dominant policy decision emphasis on urbanisation problem in developing countries is itsrate of growth, ignoring the level of provision of resources, including the infrastructure, to match this growth. it isagainst this background that the paper undertook a broad analysis of the state of infrastructure in developing countriesusing such indices as access and quality of water supply, sanitati...

The socioeconomic impacts of infrastructure investment are worth examining in both academic and practical areas. Regarding Chinese high-speed railway construction, the existing literature mainly focuses on macro-economic level consequences openings, leaving micro-economic commonly untested. Using archival data listed companies from 2009 to 2018 difference-in-difference (DID) approach, this pape...

Decision makers working to improve transportation systems must constantly balance the need to improve roadway safety through infrastructure investment with constraints of available resources. We have explored the additional information available to transportation decision makers by integrating two independent datasets, traffic accident and roadway pavement condition data. The roadway condition ...

Intelligent transportation systems are a set of technological solutions used to improve the performance and safety of road transportation. A crucial element for the success of these systems is the exchange of information, not only between vehicles, but also among other components in the road infrastructure through different applications. One of the most important information sources in this kin...

OceanStore is a utility infrastructure designed to span the globe and provide continuous access to persistent information. Since this infrastructure is comprised of untrusted servers, data is protected through redundancy and cryptographic techniques. To improve performance, data is allowed to be cached anywhere, anytime. Finally, monitoring of usage patterns allows adaptation to regional outage...

The term “New Infrastructure” has been highlighted in China’s recent policies. It refers to a set of new, and expanding, policies the discourse surrounding them which support development facilities, equipment, systems derived from latest technologies, including 5G Internet Things, AI, cloud computing, data centers. This article reviews New Infrastructure policies, analyzing their specific discu...

We investigate how various institutional settings affect a network provider's incentives to invest in infrastructure quality. Under reasonable assumptions on demand, investment incentives turn out to be smaller under vertical separation than under vertical integration, though we also provide counterexamples. The introduction of downstream competition for the market can sometimes improve incenti...

Provision of village funds requires preparation starting from proper planning, monitoring and evaluation to improve the welfare economic level community. Dusun Karaharjan Rt 02 Rw 03 Gunungpring Village, Magelang, Central Java, is one areas that received funds. Nevertheless, some are still underutilized. Therefore, in order for these be managed independently effectively, community taught variou...