Economic growth and globalisation create traffic growth, leading to congestion, which again increases travel times and costs. Traffic growth also increases CO2 emissions, air pollution, accidents, and noise. So, clearly there is a need to manage traffic, taking into account that there is a need for transportation; hence it cannot be restricted without costs.
Road pricing, where motorists pay for driving on specific roads, is an instrument that may efficiently reduce the negative impacts. But despite technological development and the efforts of the EU, it is still not widely used....
Economic growth and globalisation create traffic growth, leading to congestion, which again increases travel times and costs. Traffic growth also i...
In this book, the author's strong commitment to the multi-disciplinary field of regional science emerges to provide a unifying framework between spatial modelling traditions from quantitative geography and those from spatial economics, whereby each is enhanced. Starting with a detailed discussion of each field illustrated with numerical examples, the two traditions are brought together by either making the economic models probabilistic or transforming the objectives of the geographic models to reflect both utility theory and production theory. The ideas are applied to develop urban models...
In this book, the author's strong commitment to the multi-disciplinary field of regional science emerges to provide a unifying framework between sp...
One aspect of the new economy is a transition to a networked society, and the emergence of a highly interconnected, interdependent and complex system of networks to move people, goods and information. An example of this is the in creasing reliance of networked systems (e. g., air transportation networks, electric power grid, maritime transport, etc. ) on telecommunications and information in frastructure. Many of the networks that evolved today have an added complexity in that they have both a spatial structure - i. e., they are located in physical space but also an a spatial dimension...
One aspect of the new economy is a transition to a networked society, and the emergence of a highly interconnected, interdependent and complex system ...
This text brings together differing geographic perspectives in modeling and analysis in order to highlight infrastructure weaknesses or plan for their protection. Offering new methodological approaches, the book explores the potential consequences of critical infrastructure failure, stemming from both man-made and natural disasters. The approaches employed are wide-ranging, including geographic, economic and social perspectives.
This text brings together differing geographic perspectives in modeling and analysis in order to highlight infrastructure weaknesses or plan for th...
Recent economic transformations in the world economy are progressing in two divergent directions - international production fragmentation and industrial agglomeration. Based on extensive data analysis and using models of interdependencies between key economies, this book analyses innovation systems that cross national borders. It is shown that technological complexity is an important factor in the formation of highly specific production networks, and why, for a number of production systems, fragmentation and clustering are two sides of the same coin. By outlining the picture of a world...
Recent economic transformations in the world economy are progressing in two divergent directions - international production fragmentation and industri...
Regional Science is now more than 50 years old; in the last two decades, significant advances in methodology have occurred, spurred in large part by access to computers. The range of analytical techniques now available is enormous; this books provides a sampling of the toolkit that is now at the disposal of analysts interested in understanding and interpreting the complexity of the spatial structure of sub- national economies. The set of tools ranges from the more traditional (input-output) to new developments in computable general equilibrium models, nonlinear dynamics, neural modelling and...
Regional Science is now more than 50 years old; in the last two decades, significant advances in methodology have occurred, spurred in large part by a...
Thisbookisbasedonpaperspresentedataninternationalworkshoporganisedin Jo]nko]ping, Sweden, inJune2005tocelebratethe60thbirthdayofProfessorBorje ] Johansson adearfriendandadmiredcolleagueofours. Thebookprovidesa limited sample of Bo]rje Johansson s broad ranging research interests. In this volume, some of his friends and colleagues have contributed chapters on the themeof Innovation, DynamicRegions, andRegionalDynamics . Thisisa?eld ofresearchinwhichBo]rjeJohanssonhasbeenagreatinspirationtousall, andto whichhehim-selfhascontributedwithcharacteristicenthusiasmandinsightaspart...
When I ?rst came across the term data mining and knowledge discovery in databases, I was excited and curious to ?nd out what it was all about. I was excited because the term tends to convey a new ?eld that is in the making. I was curious because I wondered what it was doing that the other ?elds of research, such as statistics and the broad ?eld of arti?cial intelligence, were not doing. After reading up on the literature, I have come to realize that it is not much different from conventional data analysis. The commonly used de?nition of knowledge discovery in databases: "the non-trivial...
When I ?rst came across the term data mining and knowledge discovery in databases, I was excited and curious to ?nd out what it was all about. I was e...
In this book, the author's strong commitment to the multi-disciplinary field of regional science emerges to provide a unifying framework between spatial modelling traditions from quantitative geography and those from spatial economics, whereby each is enhanced. Starting with a detailed discussion of each field illustrated with numerical examples, the two traditions are brought together by either making the economic models probabilistic or transforming the objectives of the geographic models to reflect both utility theory and production theory. The ideas are applied to develop urban models...
In this book, the author's strong commitment to the multi-disciplinary field of regional science emerges to provide a unifying framework between sp...
Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the "global cities" (e.g. New York, London, Paris, Tokyo) that influence what happens in the rest of the world. In contrast, this research looks at the cities at the receiving end of the forces of globalization. The general finding is that large cities, on balance, benefit...
Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts...
