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Chapter and Conference Paper
Traffic Safety and the Demographic Transition
Transportation crashes have major adverse consequences for society, entailing huge medical, property, and social costs. The devastating impacts of disabling injuries on the affected individuals and their famili.....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Changing Context of Transportation Modeling: Implications of the New Economy, Intermodalism and the Drive for Environmental Quality
Over the last decade and a half, there has been a dramatic transformation of the environment in which transport infrastructure planning takes place. This transformation derives from three developments which ha...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Full Benefits and Costs of Transportation: Review and Prospects
Since transportation is a part of every good and service produced in the economy, the transportation system in an affluent and highly industrialized economy is a very large enterprise. In the U.S., the transpo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Evolution of Transport Safety in the US
While transportation in the US provides the highest level of mobility in the world, it does create a set of unintended consequences. A major such consequence derives from the 6.5 million transportation acciden...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Technological and Institutional Innovations in the Service Sector
A structural transformation has been underway over several decades in the industrialized affluent economies. The provision of services has replaced the production of goods as the predominant economic activity....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Technical Change, Employment and Metropolitan Adjustment
A remarkable restructuring of metropolitan space is underway in the industrialised countries. After two decades of rapid overall growth and peripheral expansion, the metropolitan areas are undergoing a transfo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Regional-National Linkages in Multiregional Models: Alternative Perspectives
A variety of emerging policy issues in North America and elsewhere in the affluent economies underlies the current interest in multiregional modelling. These policy issues pertain to the need for revitalisatio...