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Transport Investment and Economic Development/

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington: Brookings Institution Transport Research Program, [1965]Description: x, 314 p.:illSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 385.082 TRA
LOC classification:
  • HE193 .F75
Summary: This research paper has three primary tasks: 1) deriving in a more rigorous fashion the implications of modern economic theory, engineering, and operations research for transport planning; 2) formulating more complete models to simulate or otherwise adduce the relationships between transport investments and the broader national goals of economic development; and 3) applying these techniques to the problem of discerning which transport technologies, new and old, might best serve the economic goals of underdeveloped countries under varying geographical, industrial, and population circumstances.
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Monograph & others Monograph & others CBN HQ Library General Stacks 385.082 TRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31008100122668

Papers prepared for a series of Harvard University seminars, which are part of the Brookings Transport Research Program.

Bibliography: p. 277-305.

This research paper has three primary tasks: 1) deriving in a more rigorous fashion the implications of modern economic theory, engineering, and operations research for transport planning; 2) formulating more complete models to simulate or otherwise adduce the relationships between transport investments and the broader national goals of economic development; and 3) applying these techniques to the problem of discerning which transport technologies, new and old, might best serve the economic goals of underdeveloped countries under varying geographical, industrial, and population circumstances.

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