Abstract Transport infrastructure has often been observed to influence urbanization which is again associated with economic development and improvement in quality of life. However, the direction of causality between the two is unclear as it may depend on the particular context which is very much determined by the socio-economic conditions, political policy decisions, etc. Also, the role of different transport sectors (e.g. road, rail, port, etc.) may change over different phases of development and historic conditions. This study, thus, attempts to explore the causal direction between transport infrastructure and urbanization during the post-liberalization era in India (1991–2011). It has used eleven variables to represent various transport sectors and also categorizes the Indian states into leading, intermediate and lagging groups to find out how the role of various transport sectors changes with various phases of development. The study has used dynamic time series models such as Vector Error-Correction (VEC) and Vector Auto-Regression (VAR) for this purpose, which is absent in the present literature. Results showed support in favor of modernization theory of urbanization in most of the cases.

    Highlights Causality between transport infrastructure and urbanization is explored. The study focuses on the post-liberalization period in India. Relationship changes across regions and sub-sectors of transport infrastructure. Support in favor of modernization theory has been obtained. Urbanization causes urban bias (in road infrastructure), mainly in lagging region.


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    Title :

    Investigating causality between transport infrastructure and urbanization: A state-level study of India (1991–2011)


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    Published in:

    Transport Policy ; 113 ; 46-55


    Publication date :

    2020-03-17


    Size :

    10 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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