How transport costs shape the spatial pattern of economic activity.

Author(s)
Thisse, J.-F.
Year
Abstract

The trade-off between increasing returns and transport costs, the optimal location of a firm, the mobility of firms and workers, the emergency of a core-periphery structure, the bell-shaped curve of spatial development, and the trade-off between commuting costs within the city and transport costs between cities are discussed. The advantages and disadvantages of monocentric and polycentric cities are described. How to design optimal transport policies is considered a most difficult issue, depending on whether global efficiency, spatial equity, ecological sustainability or a combination of all these factors is meant. For the covering abstract see ITRD E146823

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C 49267 (In: C 49266 [electronic version only]) /70 /10 /72 / ITRD E146835
Source

In: The future for interurban passenger transport : introductory papers and summary of discussions presented at the 18th international on transport economics and policy, Madrid, May 2009, p. 25-51

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