Impact of Transport Infrastructure on International Competitiveness of Europe

Purwanto, Alloysius Joko; Heyndrickx, Christophe; Kiel, Jan; Betancor, Ofelia; Socorro, María del; Hernández, Aday; Eugenio-Martin, Juan L.; Pawłowska, Barbara; Borkowski, Przemysław; Fiedler, Ralf

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2017.05.273

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“…Arvis et al, 2012], European Union [e.g. Purwanto, 2010], OECD [e.g. Merk, 2012]) have discussed the potential benefits of an improved infrastructure network and its capability of fostering both regional competitiveness and economic development.…”

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Port infrastructures and trade: Empirical evidence from Brazil

Bottasso

Conti

Porto

et al. 2018

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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Port infrastructures and trade: Empirical evidence from Brazil

Bottasso

Conti

Porto

et al. 2018

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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“…Transport has a significant impact on internal and external logistics. Therefore, it increases business attractiveness [16][17][18], both in terms of the availability of manufactured goods for consumers and the increase of the turnover rate for producers. The identity of the methodologies used to calculate corresponding indicators is an obligatory statistical condition in order to conduct an intercountry analysis.…”

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Consequences of the integration to the Eurasian Economic Union: methodology of statistical evaluation and first results

Тихонова¹,

Melnikova²,

Lukács³

2018

EA-XXI

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The study represents an assessment of socioeconomic integration consequences within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) for the participating countries-Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The authors implemented a personally developed approach of integral efficiency evaluation based on the calculation of the coefficients of state social and economic development indicators of growth as a main method for such assessment. These indicators allow us to characterise the following segments: national welfare, inflation, investment activity, labour market and the level of poverty, and the condition of the main economic sectors. The authors determined that Russia is the only export-oriented member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). The worst consequences of integration in the cross-border trade sphere are observed in Belarus. For the analysed countries (excluding Kyrgyzstan), the first year of the existence of the EEU can be characterised as a period of economic recession (2015). According to the comparison of integral rates for the periods of 2005-2014 and 2015-2017, it was defined that the integration had a positive economic effect in the short term. By now, all the five participating countries have achieved the same level of social and economic development as in the pre-crisis period (2012-2013). In terms of the EEU membership, the calculated economic growth expands from 3% in Kyrgyzstan (by the integral index) up to 30% in the Republic of Belarus. Russia has also significantly strengthened its position (the growth rate of the index in 2015-17 was 25%).

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“…This assertion has been proven for passenger transport [18] and for freight [19][20][21]. In their exhaustive survey, Purwanto et al [17] concluded Sustainability 2019, 11, 4181 4 of 19 that increased competitiveness is among the wider benefits of transport infrastructure investments. The second pillar of the GCI is also related to the quality of rail infrastructure of the national railway.…”

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“…In our study, influencing factors from both groups were selected and also direct competitiveness indices (Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), GCI6P, GCI2P) have been integrated to elaborate the dependencies of these influencers. Since it has been argued that single measures of competitiveness are not sufficient, several authors propose composite indices [16,17]. One of our objectives was to shed light on the connections of single factors and these composite indices-especially the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI)-in our paper.…”

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Principal Component Analysis of the Potential for Increased Rail Competitiveness in East-Central Europe

Duleba

Farkas

2019

Sustainability

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Increased rail competitiveness has been the objective of many countries around the world, including member states of the EU. Although railway market liberalization has always been accompanied by high expectations of increased efficiency and competitiveness, the overall impact of such decisions can be considered controversial. This paper aims to contribute to the scientific debate by conducting a factor analysis of some East-Central European countries from the aspect of rail freight competitiveness. Since many highly correlated factors influence competitiveness, its mathematical–statistical representation and analysis is difficult due to the high number of dimensions of the factor space. Moreover, competitiveness cannot be measured directly only as a latent variable which is a feature of Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The introduced PCA, model by way of reducing the number of dimensions, can highlight the relations among the attributes and determine the most crucial issues capable of increasing rail competitiveness in the given countries and also of clustering those national railway markets. Recommendations for structural changes in national rail freight markets of the region are also supplied. Our results show that international rail competitiveness depends rather on market efficiency than on market liberalization due to the fact that the Global Competitiveness Index and Export/Import attributes did not significantly correlate with market concentration. As for the larger domestic rail freight sectors, small freight forwarders—spawned by liberalization—are shown to play a significant role in increasing competitiveness.

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Impact of Transport Infrastructure on International Competitiveness of Europe

Cited by 29 publications

References 7 publications

Port infrastructures and trade: Empirical evidence from Brazil

Port infrastructures and trade: Empirical evidence from Brazil

Consequences of the integration to the Eurasian Economic Union: methodology of statistical evaluation and first results

Principal Component Analysis of the Potential for Increased Rail Competitiveness in East-Central Europe

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