Transport Development and the Evolution of Economic Geography

Masahisa Fujita and Tomoya Mori

No 21, IDE Discussion Papers from Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO)

Abstract: In this paper, based on the recent advances in the new economic geography (e.g., Fujita, Krugman and Venables [12]), we analyze impacts of transport costs on the spatial patterns of economic agglomeration. We first identify prototypes from the existing models, and explain the mechanism of how transport costs influence the balance between economic forces of agglomeration and dispersion. We then investigate the transformation of the agglomeration/dispersion patterns given gradually decreasing transport costs for different goods.

Keywords: New economic geography; Transport cost; Industrial belt; Transportation; Costs; Geography; Industrial structure; Economic geography; 運送; コスト; 地理学; 産業構造; 経済地理 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-01-01
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