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on Transport Economics |
| By: | Christian Longhi (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis; GREDEG-CNRS); Marcello M. Mariani (University of Bologna); Sylvie Rochhia (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis; GREDEG-CNRS) |
| Abstract: | This paper analyses the implications of sharing on tourists and tourism focusing on the transportation sector. The shifts from ownership to access, from products to services have induced dramatic changes triggered by the emergence of innovative marketplaces. The services offered by Knowledge Innovative Service Suppliers, start-ups at the origin of innovative marketplaces run through platforms allow the tourists to find solutions to run themselves their activities, bypassing the traditional tourism industry. The paper builds a taxonomy to apprehend the diversity attached to this growing platform economy, and uses this analytical framework to depict significant cases drawn from ridesharing or carsharing. |
| Keywords: | Sharing, platform economy, travel, transport, tourism industry |
| JEL: | L91 L83 L86 O33 |
| Date: | 2016–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gre:wpaper:2016-01&r=tre |
| By: | Gokan, Toshitaka |
| Abstract: | This paper proposes a general equilibrium model of a monocentric city based on Fujita and Krugman (1995). Two rates of transport costs per distance and for the same good are introduced. The model assumes that lower transport costs are available at a few points on a line. These lower costs represent new transport facilities, such as high-speed motorways and railways. Findings is that new transport facilities connecting the city and hinterlands strengthen the lock-in effects, which describes whether a city remains where it is forever after being created. Furthermore, the effect intensifies with better agricultural technologies and a larger population in the economy. The relationship between indirect utility and population size has an inverted U-shape, even if new transport facilities are used. However, the population size that maximizes indirect utility is smaller than that found in Fujita and Krugman (1995). |
| Keywords: | Econometric model, Transportation, Urban societies, Urban system, Monopolistic competition, Transport facilities |
| JEL: | F12 O14 R12 |
| Date: | 2016–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:jet:dpaper:dpaper548&r=tre |
| By: | Alex Van Steenbergen |
| Abstract: | This paper seeks to analyze the long term effects on traffic, environmental quality and public finance of the planned reform of fuel excise duties in Belgium. In the framework of a large scale tax reform, the Belgian federal government will implement an equalization of diesel and petrol excise rates over the 2016-2018 period. |
| JEL: | H21 H23 Q53 Q55 Q58 |
| Date: | 2015–12–08 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpb:wpaper:1509&r=tre |
| By: | Alex Trew (University of St Andrews) |
| Abstract: | Infrastructure development can affect the spatial distribution of economic activity and, by consequence, aggregate structural transformation and growth. The growth of trade and specialization of regions, in turn, affects the demand for infrastructure. This paper develops a model in which the evolution of the transport sector occurs alongside the growth in trade and output of agricultural and manufacturing firms. Simulation output captures aspects of the historical record of England and Wales over c.1710-1881. A number of counterfactuals demonstrate the role that the timing and spatial distribution of infrastructure development plays in determining the timing and pace of takeoff. |
| Keywords: | Industrial revolution, growth, transport, spatial development. |
| JEL: | H54 O11 O18 O33 N13 N93 R12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:san:cdmawp:1601&r=tre |
| By: | Inderst, Georg (Asian Development Bank Institute) |
| Abstract: | This study evaluates infrastructure investment and finance in Asia from a global perspective. It provides an overview on infrastructure needs and the various sources of private finance, globally and within Asia, and creates a “bigger picture” for the demand and supply of capital for infrastructure by using a simple framework, i.e., percentages of gross domestic product. |
| Keywords: | infrastructure investment; project finance; public-pricate partnerships |
| JEL: | G23 G28 G31 H54 O16 O18 |
| Date: | 2016–01–25 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ris:adbiwp:0555&r=tre |