Assessing spatial equity and efficiency impacts of transport infrastructure projects

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 795-811

  Bröcker, Johannes ^a   Korzhenevych, Artem ^a   Schürmann, Carsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b RRG Spatial Planning and Geoinformation   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infrastructure policy; Spatial computable equilibrium; Trans European networks

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; COMMERCE; COST REDUCTION; COSTS; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; PUBLIC POLICY; TRANSPORTATION;

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM; EQUITY AND EFFICIENCIES; INCENTIVE COMPATIBLE; INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY; PASSENGER TRANSPORT; TRANS EUROPEAN NETWORKS; TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; HUB AND SPOKE NETWORK; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING METHOD; TRANSPORTATION POLICY;

EUROPE;

EID: 77955551922     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2009.12.008     Document Type: Article

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