Transportation and Economic Development Challenges

NECTAR Series on Transportation and Communications Networks Research

Edited by Kenneth Button, University Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, US and Aura Reggiani, Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy

Recent years have seen considerable changes in the technology of transportation with the development of high-speed rail networks, more fuel-efficient automobiles and aircraft, and the widespread adoption of informatics in disciplines such as traffic management and supply chain logistics. The contributions to this volume assess transportation interactions with employment and income, examine some of the policies that have been deployed to maximize the economic and social impacts of transportation provision at the local and regional levels and analyze how advances in transportation technologies have, and will, impact future development.