PLANNING FOR A SUSTAINABLE EUROPE? - TU Berlin

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Printed on October 31, 2002
Last revised on Sept 15, 2002
CHAPTER 2
Transport, Development and Sustainability:
First Approximations
2.1 Introduction....................................................................................................... 41
2.2 Transport and Economic Development ............................................................ 41
2.2.1 From Henry Ford’s Assembly Lines to VW’s “Transparent Factory” ..... 42
2.2.2 Macroeconomic aspects of transport investments .................................... 46
2.2.3 Reduction of transport cost ....................................................................... 46
2.2.4 Inter-regional trade theory ........................................................................ 47
2.2.5 Production Function studies: “Is public expenditure productive?” .......... 48
2.2.6 Rethinking the theory on transport investments ....................................... 51
2.3 “Sustainable Development”.............................................................................. 57
2.4 “Sustainable Transport”.................................................................................... 66
2.5 Two Ill-Defined Concepts?............................................................................... 72