The problem of the evaluation impacts derived from investments in high capacity highways on the economic activity has atract an increasingly interest both from economists and engineers who are employed at the public administration who need to develop selection criteria to assign the financial resources on an efficient basis, and for academic researchers who try to develop a general synthetic predictive model valid for the analysis. The resultant conclusions from this debate have been diverse, on one hand it's fullly admitted the existence of a relation between economic development and endowment of infrastructures, and nevertheless, but on the other hand, we are far from assuming that we can obtain the wished aims of economic growth and competitiveness only through the increase in the availability of infrastructures. Hence multitude of partial studies have been developed: in specific geographical areas and sectors and from diverse theoretical frameworks. These works have thrown lights and shades on the viability of economic development politics based upon public investment in infrastructures. Our main goal in this study is attempting to develop a specific model who presents the consequences of road infrastructure investment in peripheral areas, trying to capture the global impacts and developing a general framework as wide and interdisciplinary as possible. For the covering abstract see ITRD E137145.
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