Transport and Economic Development – Report of Round Table 119

Topics

• Mobility
• Regional value added, Mobility

Abstract

Transport policy decisions affect the mobility of populations and businesses and thereby influence prosperity, growth in GDP and employment across the economy. The effects are twofold: 1) Increasing economic development causes more traffic. 2) The mobility of people and good is a precondition for greater productivity and economic growth.

Journal / Publisher / Institution

Economic Research Centre

Issue / Volume / Number

Round Table 119

Further information

ECMT2002_Transport-EconomicDevelopment