a r t i c l e i n f o How to provide transport infrastructure to a tourist destination optimally is a salient question in tourism economics. Even so, this question has received no theoretical attention in the literature. Hence, we use contract theory to provide the first theoretical analysis of the optimal provision of transport infrastructure by an asymmetrically informed tourist agency (TA) i...

The real costs of trade – the transport and other costs of doing business internationally – are important determinants of a country's ability to participate fully in the world economy. Remoteness and poor transport and communications infrastructure isolate countries, inhibiting their participation in global production networks. Recent liberalizations have reduced artificial trade barriers, and ...

In modern conditions, one of the key factors in economic growth any territory is an efficiently functioning infrastructure that determines quality life population and business activity all sectors economy. Transport, which most important element infrastructure, implies need to constantly improve services provided order form a single space on country. The article discusses methods assessment sel...

Economy development and promotion of high-speed transport technologies result in the increase of inter-city high-speed passenger transport. The energy consumption over the lifetime of transport infrastructure, composed of construction and operation energy consumption, is a significant factor that should be considered at the planning stage. In this paper, we present a mixed-integer programming (...