Investment in transport infrastructure reduces the cost of distance and enables firms to establish contacts over larger distances. Using data from a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms and geographic information system techniques, this article studies the impact of domestic transport cost reductions on firms’ export market participation, taking into account the role of entry costs and other fi...

Austroads and the Federal Department of Transport and Regional Services (DOTARS) engaged CSIRO, the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) Transport Research, the Monash University Centre for Population and Urban Research and the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) to undertake a project to examine likely future climate change and population scenarios for the whole o...

In 1980, national land transport networks in Asia were unconnected between each other and across national borders, financed from public budgets, and tightly controlled by national road and railway administrations. Today, a Trans-Asian transport network is emerging that is governed by an ecosystem of local, national and international, and private sector institutions, and that are an integral par...