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Scotland --- Transportation --- Highland Region --- North-western Sutherland (District) --- Public transport services --- Provision.

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656.073 --- 656.027 --- 656.027 Transport according to speed, rapidity. Slow and express transport --- Transport according to speed, rapidity. Slow and express transport --- 656.073 Goods transport services and formalities --- Goods transport services and formalities --- Transport. Traffic

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This paper provides an overview of the major current debates on infrastructure policy. It reviews the evidence on the macroeconomic significance of the sector in terms of growth and poverty alleviation. It also discusses the major institutional debates, including the relative comparative advantage of the public and the private sector in the various stages of infrastructure service delivery as well as the main options for changes in the role of government (i.e. regulation and decentralization).

Climate Change --- Infrastructures --- Public Partnership --- Road --- Roads --- Sanitation --- Tax --- Transport --- Transport Economics, Policy and Planning --- Transport Sector --- Transport Services

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Rural access is among the most important infrastructure constraints in rural Africa. Using the results from comprehensive household surveys and other data from Ethiopia, the paper recasts light on the heterogeneous impacts of road accessibility on agriculture and nonagricultural growth. It is found that crop production is increased by major and feeder road improvements. Significant synergy is also found. When investigating further into this effect, there are two impacts: farmers' access to the input market, especially fertilizer, was improved mainly by major corridor improvement. And output market access was improved by feeder road improvement. In addition, the household's nonagricultural income is somehow increased by improved road connectivity. There must be secondary effects. The transport demand function estimated with additional data indicates that as the road network improves, people's mobility increases. Furthermore, local business employment is found to increase with road improvements. To meet the increasing demand for mobility, efficiency and frequency of transport services are important.

Agricultural Production --- Agriculture --- Climate Change and Agriculture --- Crops and Crop Management Systems --- Food Security --- Inequality --- Job Creation --- Pest Management --- Poverty Reduction --- Rural Access --- Transport --- Transport Services

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Access to basic infrastructure services - roads, electricity, water, sanitation - and the efficient provision of the services, is a key challenge in the fight against poverty. Many of the poor (and particularly the extreme poor) in rural communities in Latin America live on average 5 kilometers or more from the nearest paved road, which is almost twice as far as non-poor rural households. There have been major improvements in access to water, sanitation, electricity, telecommunications, ports, and airports, but road coverage has not changed much, although some effort and resources have been invested to improve the quality of road networks. This paper focuses on the main determinants of logistics costs and physical access to services and, whenever possible, provides evidence of the effects of these determinants on competitiveness, growth, and poverty in Latin American economies. The analysis shows the impact of improving infrastructure and logistics costs on three fronts - macro (growth), micro (productivity at the firm level), and poverty (the earnings of poor/rural people). In addition, the paper provides recommendations and solutions that encompass a series of policies to reduce the prevalent high logistics costs and limited access to services in Latin America. The recommendations rely on applied economic analysis on logistics and trade facilitation.

Airports --- Environment --- Environmental Economics and Policies --- Freight --- Road --- Roads --- Rural Roads --- Sanitation --- Transport --- Transport Economics, Policy and Planning --- Transport services --- Transportation --- True