TY - BOOK ID - 136900426 TI - Road Infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia : Does Network Quality Affect Trade ? AU - Shepherd, Ben AU - Wilson, John S. PY - 2007 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Bottlenecks KW - Costs KW - High Transport KW - Initiatives KW - Investments KW - Road KW - Road Improvement KW - Road Infrastructure KW - Road Network KW - Road Quality KW - Road Transport KW - Roads KW - Route KW - Routes KW - Trans Transit Routes KW - Transport KW - Transport Costs KW - Transport Data KW - Transport Economics, Policy and Planning KW - Travel KW - True UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136900426 AB - The authors present a new database of minimum distance road routes connecting 138 cities in 27 countries across Europe and Central Asia. They use it to show that improved road network quality is robustly associated with higher intraregional trade flows. Gravity model simulations suggest that an ambitious but feasible road upgrade could increase trade by 50 percent over baseline, exceeding the expected gains from tariff reductions or trade facilitation programs of comparable scope. Cross-country spillovers due to overland transit are important: total intraregional trade could be increased by 30 percent by upgrading roads in just three countries-Albania, Hungary, and Romania. ER -