The Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure on Sustainable Development: Emerging Trends and Challenges

Wang, Luqi; Xue, Xiaolong; Zhao, Zebin; Wang, Zeyu

doi:10.3390/ijerph15061172

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“…Therefore, the results are more accurate. (2) We used expressway mileage as an output. This variable can isolate the impacts of the exterior factors of the company on operation efficiency, such as the location of the expressway, the level of local economic development, the population density, and the industry structure.…”

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Infrastructure Operation Efficiency and Influential Factors in Developing Countries: Evidence from China

Wei

Zhang

2019

Sustainability

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The development of sustainable infrastructure has been identified as one of the seventeen sustainable development goals by the United Nations. Keeping the operation of infrastructure sustainable in terms of economy becomes a major challenge in developing countries. The objective of this research is to evaluate the operation efficiency of the expressway and explore the key influential factors. This research took expressway mileage as the physical output and evaluated the operation efficiency of the expressway companies based on the super-efficiency Slacks-Based Measure (SBM) model; additionally, we analyzed the influential factors on the basis of the fixed-effects regression model. The results showed the following: (1) The average value of operation efficiency of China's expressway companies from 2007 to 2017 was 0.904. In general, the operation of expressways was efficient. However, the differences in operation efficiency among the eleven expressway companies were significant, and some companies were seriously inefficient. (2) The asset-liability ratio, the scale, and the structure of property rights in the companies were shown to be the main factors affecting the operation efficiency. These results indicate that the development of innovative financing modes and optimization of the scale of each company are the key directions for infrastructure reform, which could eventually narrow the differences in operation efficiency and allow the development of sustainable infrastructure.

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Infrastructure Operation Efficiency and Influential Factors in Developing Countries: Evidence from China

Wei

Zhang

2019

Sustainability

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“…The transport infrastructure in all 28 countries of the European Union (EU-28) has undergone the fastest development in the last decades, and the impact of the transportation on sustainable development and economic growth has become a concern for policy-makers as well for economists or entrepreneurs. To identify multiple impacts of transportation infrastructure development, the studies mainly focus both on statistical results [1], and economic fundamentals theories. Even if the effect of transport infrastructure development in relationship with economic growth has been receiving more attention and debate and has been empirically investigated, there are still many aspects that should be taken into account for more detailed expertise.…”

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Transport Infrastructure Development, Public Performance and Long-Run Economic Growth: A Case Study for the Eu-28 Countries

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This paper examines the link between the transport infrastructure and the economic performance in the EU-28 countries, over the period of time 2000–2014, using panel data methods. Firstly, we aim to provide the theoretical background of the transport infrastructure development, public sector performance and economic growth. The paper's key point is the detailed look at the components of transport infrastructure, analyzing the implications of the policy-makers based on a production function and in order to test the policy implication, factor analysis is also employed. The results show significant effects from transport infrastructure components even after institutional and other factors are controlled for. From the path analysis results, the study conﬁrm the alternative hypothesis, outlining the unidirectional long-run causality relationship between growth, transport infrastructure and Public Sector Performance. Transport infrastructure status (measured thought index of transport) has significant impact on economic development with coefficient estimate. The public performance indicators influence the way to economic growth. On the one hand, the corruption, the regulatory environment, size shadow economy, infant mortality, income inequality, inflation and unemployment rate negatively affect the economic growth, and on the other hand there is a strong positive relationship between the quality of the judiciary, education achievement, life expectancy and economic growth.

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“…Science mapping is a quantitative analysis approach that uses mathematical statistics and visualization techniques to study bibliographic networks (e.g., academics, institutions, themes, keywords, and journals) in a specific field [28]. This approach has been widely applied in many academic fields, such as sustainable transportation [29], environment science [30], city logistics [31] and waste management [32] and can directly synthesize salient findings from the existing knowledge system. Figure 1 illustrates the detailed research process, consisting of three steps.…”

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A Systematic Literature Review of Green and Sustainable Logistics: Bibliometric Analysis, Research Trend and Knowledge Taxonomy

Ren

Dong

Sun

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IJERPH

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Ever-growing globalization and industrialization put forward impending requirements for green and sustainable logistics (G&SL). Over the past decades, G&SL initiatives triggered worldwide deliberations, aiming at easing negative transport externalities and improving supply chain performance. This review-based paper attempts to offer a joint quantitative and qualitative understanding for the overall evolutionary trend, knowledge structure, and literature gaps of the G&SL research field. Employing the science mapping approach, a total of 306 major paper published from 1999 to 2019 were retrieved, elaborated on, and synthesized. Visualized statistics regarding publication years, journal allocation/co-citation, inter-country/institution collaboration, influential articles, co-occurred keywords, and time view clusters of research themes were analyzed bibliographically. On this basis, a total of 50 sub-branches of G&SL knowledge were classified and thematically discussed based on five alignments, namely (i) social-environmental-economic research, (ii) planning, policy and management, (iii) application and practice, (iv) technology, and (v) operations research. Finally, the current knowledge obstacles and the future research opportunities were suggested. The findings contribute to portray a systematic intellectual prospect for the state quo, hotspots, and academic frontiers of G&SL research. Moreover, it provides researchers and practitioners with heuristic thoughts to govern transportation ecology and logistics service quality.

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The Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure on Sustainable Development: Emerging Trends and Challenges

Cited by 130 publications

References 58 publications

Infrastructure Operation Efficiency and Influential Factors in Developing Countries: Evidence from China

Infrastructure Operation Efficiency and Influential Factors in Developing Countries: Evidence from China

Transport Infrastructure Development, Public Performance and Long-Run Economic Growth: A Case Study for the Eu-28 Countries

A Systematic Literature Review of Green and Sustainable Logistics: Bibliometric Analysis, Research Trend and Knowledge Taxonomy

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