Road accessibility and cohesion in lagging regions: Empirical evidence from Portugal based on spatial econometric models

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 125-132

  Ribeiro, Anabela ^a   Antunes, António Pais ^a   Páez, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Daily accessibility; Education levels; Population; Purchasing power; Road infrastructure; Spatially autoregressive models

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ECONOMETRICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERIPHERAL REGION; PURCHASING POWER PARITY; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70449730210     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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