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Roads and Transport are Private Goods
Economic Affairs, 1986Decades of economics teaching have held that the provision of roods and transport is a public good from which free‐riders connof be excluded, and must therefore be provided by the stote. Gabriel Roth, fromerly at the World Bonk and now on infernational consultant on privatisation, demonstrates how, even in the poorer areas of the world, the market is ...
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Future Goods Transport in Europe
1989In order to predict future developments in the field of international goods transport, it is necessary first to analyse some of the important factors which determine these developments. I shall concentrate on three such factors: 1. Changes in products and production systems. 2.
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Is public transport good for public health?
British Journal of Nursing, 2000Given the recent tragedies surrounding trains, boats and planes, perhaps it is time to review the influence of these methods of transport on public health. A few centuries ago when stage coaches were first introduced into Great Britain they were seen by some as a great evil and those who travelled by these coaches became weary and listless.
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Transportation of goods by sea – charterparties [PDF]
Indira Carr, Peter Stone
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Transport Accessibility as Merit Good [PDF]
The individual's perception of transport cost usually does not include the full social cost of transport, as in for instance, its global environmental effects. Under this view, we observe a mismatch between individual perception and general social transport cost and welfare.
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Intelligent Containers for the Goods Transport
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Trade with a Produced Transportation Good [PDF]
This paper is in one sense the analysis of a particular case of the Hadley and Kemp model (described in the paper). We shall focus on two region or country trade with two orthodox commodities plus a produced transport commodity. We will observe that balance of payments disequilibrium is a general result with trade with endogenous transport costs and ...
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