Traffic accessibility and the effect on firms and population in 99 Austrian regions

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In this paper we describe the EAR (regional economic accessibility) model to investigate the impact of the improvement of railroad infrastructure on regional GDP, population and firms growth in 99 Austrian regions. We evaluate the impact of four potential railroad infrastructure investment projects on the accessibility of Austrian regions, which is used to forecast future growth of these regions. Regional performance is measured by four variables, gross regional product, number of firms, population size, and employment. Eventually a ranking of these four projects is carried out for the first ten years of operation of the four potential investment projects. We show that the improvement of train accessibility has different impacts on regions with high and low overall performance.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series ; No. 198

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise ; Railroads and Other Surface Transportation ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
• Subject: evaluation of infrastructure projects ; long-term regional forecasts ; accessibility and traffic analysis ; ranking ; Verkehrsinvestition ; Streckenbau ; Makroökonomischer Einfluss ; Regionales Wachstum ; Verkehrsinfrastrukturpolitik ; Österreich

Contributors, Location and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Polasek, Wolfgang ; Schwarzbauer, Wolfgang
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS)
• (where): Vienna
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/72723
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