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Estimating Direct, Indirect, and Induced Employment from Highway Construction in India

18 March 2020
Highway construction is a major employment generator across the world. Assessing four highway projects located in two distinct provinces, the paper illustrates a methodology to develop estimates of employment generation from highway construction in emerging economies like India.

Assessing the Wider Economic Impacts of Transport Infrastructure Investment with an Illustrative Application to the North-South High-Speed Railway Project in Viet Nam

18 March 2020
The paper aims to propose a mechanism to capture the spillover effects of transport infrastructure by identifying the employment agglomeration impact of transport investments through a measure of the change in effective employment density.

Exploring a Dynamic Relationship between Transportation Strategies and Community Liveability: A Case of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration

18 March 2020
The paper assesses the spatial dimensions by considering the evolution of the conurbation in four phases, and by looking at cumulative causation of the sequence of impacts of maritime, road, rail, air and ITeS communication networks on liveability within the Kolkata Urban Agglomeration in India.

Urban Transportation Systems in Selected Small Developing Island States: A Comparative Analysis

18 March 2020
The paper performs a multi-criteria comparative analysis of urban transportation systems in capital cities of selected Small Island Developing States sharing similar socio-economic characteristics. To identify knowledge gaps and guide the design and evaluation of future transport investments the…

High-Speed Rails and Knowledge Production: A Global Perspective

18 March 2020
This ongoing research aims to develop empirical macro-economic evidence for the effect of high-speed rails (HSRs) on Knowledge Production at an international scale. The objectives are to study associations and test the potential causal relationship between HSR development and the country’s patent…

Mainstreaming Environment-Socioeconomic Interlinkages into the National Development Policies in Mongolia: A Tool

28 November 2019
This presentation discusses a case study on how the government of Mongolia developed a tool which helps mainstream environment and socio-economic linkages into the country's national development policies.

Accelerating SDG Implementation through Green Finance

28 November 2019
This presentation discusses the UN Environment's work on promoting green finance. It also underscores the importance of developing a National Green Finance Roadmap, and gives some guidance on how to develop such a roadmap.

Intelligent Transport System to Smart Mobility in Korea: Lessons & Future Direction

30 October 2019
The Intelligent Transport System has helped resolved urban development challenges in the Seoul, while improving mobility in the city. Download this presentation to know more.

New Public Transport Paradigm Using Smartcard

29 October 2019
Learn how smartcard has helped improved public transportation, not just in terms of reducing the long queue but in reducing carbon emissions as well.

Bus System Reformation

29 October 2019
This presentation shares the evolution of public transportation in the Republic of Korea--from poor services into human-oriented kind of transportation that is safe, convenient, and inclusive.