Traffic Accessibility and the Effect on Firms and Population in 99 Austrian Regions

Wolfgang Polasek and Wolfgang Schwarzbauer

No 198, Economics Series from Institute for Advanced Studies

Abstract: In this paper we describe the EAR (regional economic accessibility) model to investigate the impact of the improvement of railroad infrastructure on regional GDP, population and firms growth in 99 Austrian regions. We evaluate the impact of four potential railroad infrastructure investment projects on the accessibility of Austrian regions, which is used to forecast future growth of these regions. Regional performance is measured by four variables, gross regional product, number of firms, population size, and employment. Eventually a ranking of these four projects is carried out for the first ten years of operation of the four potential investment projects. We show that the improvement of train accessibility has different impacts on regions with high and low overall performance.

Keywords: Evaluation of infrastructure projects; Long-term regional forecasts; Accessibility and traffic analysis; Ranking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C23 L92 R1 R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2006-11
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