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The Rise of the Knowledge Economy in the Megalopolis
This chapter described the evolution of the Megalopolis, the region of continuous urban development that stretches along the US East Coast from Boston Metropolitan Region in the North to the Washington DC Metropo...
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Rise of Megalopolis as a Mega Knowledge Region: Interactions of Innovations in Transport, Information, Production, and Organizations
This chapter argues that the passage of the Megalopolis from a declining industrial economy to a Mega Knowledge Region in the last three decades has been made possible by a four-part ‘Knowledge Infrastructure’: T...
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Industrial agglomeration and transport accessibility in metropolitan Seoul
This study aims to reveal the relationship between industrial agglomeration and transport accessibility in the Seoul metropolitan area. Our study suggests that in spite of the rapid expansion of the Seoul metr...
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An empirical analysis of household choices on housing and travel mode in Boston
We study household choices on the housing type and travel mode in Boston in the year 1991. We first develop a theoretical model for an integrated analysis of housing and travel mode choices, which implies that...
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The Fashioning of Dynamic Competitive Advantage of Entrepreneurial Cities: Role of Social and Political Entrepreneurship
There has been a major change, over the last three decades, in the functions, policy mechanisms, and the spatial forms of many urban regions in the highly industrialized countries in North America and Europe. ...
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Benefits and costs of transport
This article aims to bring together insights from a broad body of recent literature concerned with the nature, the measurement and policy implications of benefits and costs of transport. It is argued that, fo...
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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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Transportation in Knowledge Society
The history of transportation is one ever increasing speed, comfort, convenience, safety, reliability, and continuously drop** costs of travel. Most people attribute this historical progression of transporta...
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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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Article
Changes in the energy cost of goods and services of the Japanese economy
This paper analyzes changes in the energy cost of goods and service production in the Japanese economy in the decade 1975–85. It develops an input-output scheme which explicitly and exhaustively decomposes cha...
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Statement from the retiring editors
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State Market Networks in Japan: The Case of Industrial Policy
Private enterprises and Governments have both played key roles throughout history in the creation of national wealth. In the last two or three centuries business interests in the West have become progressively...
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Editorial
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The evolution of knowledge in the labor force during industrial structuring in Japan
This paper tracks the progression of knowledge levels in the labor force between 1975 and 1985 in the Japanese economy as a whole and it's fifty three component sectors, utilizing a measure of knowledge which ...
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Martin J. Beckmann: A Retrospective
Martin J. Beckmann’s contributions to Regional Science span four decades since he arrived at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago. Over this period, his prodigious resea...
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Chapter
The State and the Market in Japanese Development
Technological progress both induces and is induced by pervasive social change. It represents not only a transformation in the material, structural, and cultural conditions of a society but is made possible by ...
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Chapter
Social change induced by technology: promotion and resistance
Technological progress, offering on increase in output which is not commensurate with the increase in the costs necessary to generate it, is in the form of that rare thing in the economist’s lexicon — a ‘free ...
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Editorial
