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      <field key="037" subkey="x">englisch</field>
      <field key="050" subkey="x">Forschungsbericht</field>
      <field key="076" subkey="">Ökonomie</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="y">http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/eco/es-198.pdf</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="z">Polasek, Wolfgang - et al., Traffic Accessibility and the Effect on Firms and Population in 99 Austrian Regions (pdf)</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="y">http://ideas.repec.org/p/ihs/ihsesp/198.html</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="z">Institute for Advanced Studies. Economics Series; 198 (RePEc)</field>
      <field key="100" subkey="">Polasek, Wolfgang</field>
      <field key="103" subkey="">Department of Economics and Finance, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria</field>
      <field key="104" subkey="a">Schwarzbauer, Wolfgang</field>
      <field key="107" subkey="">Department of Economics and Finance, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria</field>
      <field key="331" subkey="">Traffic Accessibility and the Effect on Firms and Population in 99 Austrian Regions</field>
      <field key="403" subkey="">1. Ed.</field>
      <field key="410" subkey="">Wien</field>
      <field key="412" subkey="">Institut für Höhere Studien</field>
      <field key="425" subkey="">2006, November</field>
      <field key="433" subkey="">32 pp.</field>
      <field key="451" subkey="">Institut für Höhere Studien; Reihe Ökonomie; 198</field>
      <field key="451" subkey="h">Kunst, Robert M. (Ed.) ; Fisher, Walter (Assoc. Ed.) ; Ritzberger, Klaus (Assoc. Ed.)</field>
      <field key="461" subkey="">Economics Series</field>
      <field key="517" subkey="c">from the Table of Contents: Introduction; The model; Evaluation of four railroad infrastructure investment projects; Effects of</field>
      <field key="the" subkey="">project on structurally weak regions; Comparative ranking of the projects; Summary; References; Appendixes: Maps displaying</field>
      <field key="the" subkey="">regional effects of the investment projects; Classification of structurally weak regions;</field>
      <field key="542" subkey="">1605-7996</field>
      <field key="544" subkey="">IHSES 198</field>
      <field key="700" subkey="">R1</field>
      <field key="700" subkey="">R41</field>
      <field key="700" subkey="">L92</field>
      <field key="700" subkey="">C21</field>
      <field key="700" subkey="">C23</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">Evaluation of infrastructure projects</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">Long-term regional forecasts</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">Accessibility and traffic analysis</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">Ranking</field>
      <field key="753" subkey="">Abstract: In this paper we describe the EAR (regional economic accessibility) model to investigate the impact of the improvement</field>
      <field key="of" subkey="r">ailroad infrastructure on regional GDP, population and firms growth in 99 Austrian regions. We evaluate the impact of four</field>
      <field key="pot" subkey="e">ntial railroad infrastructure investment projects on the accessibility of Austrian regions, which is used to forecast future</field>
      <field key="gro" subkey="w">th of these regions. Regional performance is measured by four variables, gross regional product, number of firms, population</field>
      <field key="siz" subkey="e">, and employment. Eventually a ranking of these four projects is carried out for the first ten years of operation of the four</field>
      <field key="pot" subkey="e">ntial investment projects. We show that the improvement of train accessibility has different impacts on regions with high and</field>
      <field key="low" subkey="">overall performance.;</field>
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