Interurban population distribution and commute modes

This paper explores the interplay between trade costs and urban costs within a new economic geography model in which workers are mobile. As in former research, we show that workers tend at the same time to agglomerate in order to limit trade costs of manufactured goods and to scatter in order to all...

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Published inAnnals of regional science Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 125 - 144
Main Author Allio, Cédric
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.07.2016
Springer Nature B.V
Springer Verlag
Subjects
Agglomeration
Cities
Commuting
Congestion
Consumption
Costs
Economic geography
Economic models
Economics
Economics and Finance
Energy consumption
Environmental Economics
Environmental Sciences
Equilibrium
Geography
Housing
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
Microeconomics
Monopolistic competition
Original Paper
Population
Population distribution
Public transport
Public transportation
Regional/Spatial Science
Road construction
Roads & highways
Spatial analysis
Studies
Telecommuting
Trade
Transportation planning
Urban areas
Workers
United States > US
Texas
R300 Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location: General
R120 Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
R410 Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
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Summary:This paper explores the interplay between trade costs and urban costs within a new economic geography model in which workers are mobile. As in former research, we show that workers tend at the same time to agglomerate in order to limit trade costs of manufactured goods and to scatter in order to alleviate the burden of urban costs due to large urban areas. In this paper, special attention is paid to the role of congestion, which acts as a dispersion force and hampers workers from agglomerating in the same urban area. We show that the development of public transport, or the construction of road infrastructure, modifies the spatial organization of the economy and fosters agglomeration, as it reduces congestion.
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ISSN:0570-1864
1432-0592
DOI:10.1007/s00168-016-0766-5