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Infrastructure and Regional Development

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Infrastructure has for many years been a substantial item on the agenda of the European Community's regional policy, but has had little impact on the narrowing of regional disparities. It has now come to the fore again, with the recognition that there is a need for a genuinely European infrastructure, not just in the obvious areas of physical transport, such as roads and railways, but also including air traffic control, other public utilities, and what may be termed the "soft infrastructure" of basic research and development and training networks. This need has become urgent as the infrastructure in many core industrial parts of the community is wearing out, and the changes in Eastern Europe have revealed a decayed and inadequate infrastructure urgently needing investment. The papers in this volume have been assembled to define the state of the art in current research, and to set out an agenda for future research initiatives, which must be increasingly international.
Infrastructure and regional development: introduction; the role of infrastructure in regional development; transport infrastructure in the European Community - new developments, regional implications and evaluation; investment in transport; infrastructures and regional development; other regions' infrastructure in a region's development; the effects of the fixed link across the Great Belt; economic and social effects of a fixed link on the Straits of Messina - a preliminary analysis; the opportunities of a Liverpool landbridge; the Channel Tunnel and the impact on a peripheral region - a study of the Northern Ireland food industry; the new East-West corridor - an analysis of passenger transport flows inside of and through Germany in 2010; a new airport for Firenze? - a demand and supply analysis; infrastructure - survey and methodological exploration.
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