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on Transport Economics |
| By: | Mustapha Benmaamar; Oceane Keou; Daniel Saslavsky |
| Keywords: | Transport - Airports and Air Services Transport and Trade Logistics Industry - Common Carriers Industry Transport Economics Policy Planning Infrastructure Economics and Finance - Infrastructure Economics |
| Date: | 2015–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:22097&r=tre |
| By: | Berg,Claudia N.; Deichmann,Uwe; Liu,Yishen; Selod,Harris |
| Abstract: | This survey reviews the current state of the economic literature, assessing the impact of transport policies on growth, inclusion, and sustainability in a developing country context. The findings are summarized and methodologies are critically assessed, especially those dealing with endogeneity issues in empirical studies. The specific implementation challenges of transport policies in developing countries are discussed. |
| Keywords: | Transport Economics Policy&Planning,Rural Roads&Transport,Banks&Banking Reform,Roads and Highways Performance,Environmental Economics&Policies |
| Date: | 2015–07–14 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:7366&r=tre |
| By: | Chakarin Bejrananda (College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado-Denver); Yuk Lee (College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado-Denver); Thanchanok Khamkaew (Faculty of Economics, Maejo University) |
| Abstract: | With the rise of the importance of air transportation in the 21st century, the role of economics in airport planning and decision-making has become more important to the urban structure and land value around it. Therefore, this research aims to examine the relationship between an airport and its impacts on the distribution of urban land uses and land values by applying the Alonso’s bid rent model. The New Bangkok International Airport (Suvarnabhumi International Airport) was taken as a case study. The analysis was made over three different time periods of airport development (after the airport site was proposed, during airport construction, and after the opening of the airport). The statistical results confirm that Alonso’s model can be used to explain the impacts of the new airport only for the northeast quadrant of the airport, while proximity to the airport showed the inverse relationship with the land value of all six types of land use activities through three periods of time. It indicates that the land value for commercial land use is the most sensitive to the location of the airport or has the strongest requirement for accessibility to the airport compared to the residential and manufacturing land use. Also, the bid-rent gradients of the six types of land use activities have declined dramatically through the three time periods because of the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997. Therefore, the lesson learned from this research concerns about the reliability of the data used. The major concern involves the use of different areal units for assessing land value for different time periods between zone block (1995) and grid block (2002, 2009). As a result, this affect the investigation of the overall trends of land value assessment, which are not readily apparent. In addition, the next concern is the availability of the historical data. With the lack of collecting historical data for land value assessment by the government, some of data of land values and aerial photos are not available to cover the entire study area. Finally, the different formats of using aerial photos between hard-copy (1995) and digital photo (2002, 2009) made difficult for measuring distances. Therefore, these problems also affect the accuracy of the results of the statistical analyses. |
| Keywords: | Economic rents, Airport development area, Spatial pattern, Thailand |
| JEL: | O18 R58 R28 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sek:iacpro:2604285&r=tre |
| By: | Ming kei CHING (HKCC) |
| Abstract: | This main purpose of this study is to begin a preliminary investigation into low cost carriers (LCCs) models and explore more insights about their specific approaches and development in the region with focus on Hong Kong. After carrying out critical reviews on the LCCs operations in USA, Europe as well as other successful experience in the Asia Pacific region including Japan and Malaysia, a more detail analysis would be made in Hong Kong with particular reference to its unique environment and close proximity with PRC. Based on several case studies, key characteristics are identified and several significant factors are revealed and then discussed. In particular, the development of airport infrastructure as well as high speed rail (HSR) might also have an impact to the LCCs development in Hong Kong and could be further examined. |
| Keywords: | Low Cost Carrier, LCC, Hong Kong, |
| JEL: | L93 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sek:iacpro:2604459&r=tre |
| By: | Stergios Tampekis (Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly); Fani Samara (Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly); Stavros Sakellariou (Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly); Athanasios Sfougaris (Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, University of Thessaly); Olga Christopoulou (Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly) |
| Abstract: | The need for the “Sustainable Development” and at the same time the protection and preservation of the available natural assets has become a global concern. Forests constitute vulnerable ecosystems that change at great speed. In most of the occasions the change is downgrading. The right management of natural resources is the unique solution for the achievement of sustainable development. However, sustainable management of forests must be achieved with the respect and protection of nature and landscape. Sustainable management of forest resources can only be achieved through a well-organized road network compatible with the natural environment. This paper describes the forest roads’ Environmental Suitability based on the Multi Criteria Evaluation (MCE) Method. With this method we present the spatial variability mapping for the optimal forest road network and the environmental impacts evaluation that are caused to the natural environment. With the use of the MCE method, we can assess the human impact intensity to the forest ecosystem as well as the ecosystem’s absorption from the impacts that are caused from the forest roads’ construction. For the human impact intensity assessment the criteria that were used are: the forest’s protection percentage, the forest road density, the applied skidding means (with either the use of tractors or the cable logging systems in timber skidding), the timber skidding direction, the traffic load and truck type, the distance between forest roads and streams, the distance between forest roads and the forest boundaries and the probability that the forest roads come through unstable soils. In addition, for the ecosystem’s absorption evaluation we used forestry, topographical and social criteria. The MCE method which is described in this study provides a powerful, useful and easy to use implement in order to combine the sustainable exploitation of natural resources and the environmental protection. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Suitability, forest roads’ network, spatial variability, environmental impact, gis |
| JEL: | Q01 Q23 Q56 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sek:iacpro:2604211&r=tre |
| By: | Douglas John Porter; Musharraf Rasool Cyan; Panthea Lee; Zack Brisson; Osione Itegboje; Adam Talsma |
| Keywords: | Banks Banking Reform Conflict and Development - Post Conflict Reconstruction Housing Human Habitats Private Sector Development - E-Business Transport Economics Policy Planning Finance and Financial Sector Development Transport Communities and Human Settlements |
| Date: | 2015–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:21896&r=tre |
| By: | UMMAN TUGBA GURSOY (ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION); ÖZLEM AKCAY KASAPOGLU (ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION); ÖZLEM ÖGRET (LOGISTICS COMPANY) |
| Abstract: | This study is conducted using the data of a Logistics Company which operates in Turkey. The company aims to analyze the problems faced by the damage or loss in the physical distribution process and also wants to determine the source of the problems. According to the analysis’ results it is aimed to improve the quality of services in the Logistics Company. Data set consists of 56 variables and 3245 records. Data acquired either from automation system, delivery of documents, bills and customers’ damaged or lost invoices. The automation system provides information about goods, customers, region, shipping information, vehicles, time, transfer centers, delivery status, damage assessment date. The damage or losses may cause decrease of the quality of service. This also affects the reputation of the company. Therefore, examining the errors that cause these problems and taking preventive measures are very important. In this study data mining tools were used to identify the problems. |
| Keywords: | Damage Assessment, Logistics, Data mining. |
| JEL: | M11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sek:iacpro:2604361&r=tre |