Arbeitspapier
Estimating road transport costs between EU regions
Transport costs are a crucial element of any spatial economic model. Surprisingly, good transport cost estimates at a detailed spatial level for the EU are not readily available. In this paper we address this issue by estimating a novel dataset of road freight transport costs for goods for the EU regions at the NUTS 2 level. In the spirit of the generalized transport cost (GTC) concept, we calculate the composite cost related to distance and time for the optimal route of a representative truck. We consider routes between large random samples of centroids drawn from a 1kmx1km population density grid. These transport costs are averaged to obtain an origin-destination cost matrix (in euros) at the region-pair level. The sampling approach also allows calculating the average transport cost within the regions. We separately report the corresponding iceberg transport costs for each pair of European regions, since this is the form of input required by many economic models. We also consider the effect of changes in the components of the GTC in order to evaluate transport policies. We set up a transport policy tool to assess the impact of road-transport infrastructure investment in a region by considering upgrading roads to highways. We apply this tool to study transport infrastructure investment through the European Cohesion Policy program 2014-2020.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis ; No. 04/2019
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Transportation Economics: General
Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
- Thema
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Rhomolo
Region
Growth
Generalized Transport Costs
Infrastructure
Cohesion Policy
OSM
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Persyn, Damiaan
Diaz-Lanchas, Jorge
Barbero, Javier
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
- (wo)
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Seville
- (wann)
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2019
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Persyn, Damiaan
- Diaz-Lanchas, Jorge
- Barbero, Javier
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Entstanden
- 2019
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