Highlights From panel data we construct a model of iceberg costs and infrastructure. Increasing highway mileage assists industry transfer and reduces iceberg costs. Impacts on sulfur emissions are considered. Transportation has different impacts on primary, secondary and tertiary industries. Industrial value increases in proportion to increases in highway mileages.
Abstract For developing countries, such as China, transportation may promote or constrain the development of local economies to a large extent. In this study we explore the impact of transportation and iceberg costs on industrial structure in China. Using panel data to construct theoretical models of iceberg costs and industrial transfer, environment-oriented quantitative analysis is used to identify the influence of developing transportation on different industries. The results show that the development of transportation services exerts the most positive impacts on promoting primary industry, then tertiary industry and the least for secondary industry, though impacts are all in the stage of increasing returns to scale.
Transportation, iceberg costs and the adjustment of industrial structure in China
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment ; 32 ; 278-286
2014-01-01
9 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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