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6. Trends in Transportation Investment

6. Trends in Transportation Investment

In this section, we discuss trends in transportation investment in the following sequence: overall transportation investment, transportation investment by sector, transportation investment by asset type (i.e., infrastructure and rolling stock) and by...

References

References

1. Apogee Research, Inc. and Greenhorne & O'Mara, "Research on Relationship between Economic Development and Transport Investment," Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., NCHPR Report 418, 1998.

2. Bell, Michael E. and Therese J....

1. Introduction

1. Introduction

Transportation investment is defined as additions to transportation fixed assets. Transportation fixed assets refers to structures, motor vehicles, and other machinery and equipment, which are used in the provision of transportation services for more than one year. Due to...