TRADE CORRIDORS

OVERVIEW

This section contains general information about trade corridors not specific to any particular region or corridor

The Impacts of US-Latin American Trade on the Southwest's Economy and Transportation System: An Assessment of Impact Methodologies. Leigh B. Boske and John C. Cuttino. 2001. 100pp. Special Project Report.

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This report reviews current methods used to analyze the economic and transportation impacts of trade. Because there are few methods capable of adequately analyzing regional impacts of corridor-specific trade, the report presents a review of economic impact methodologies that are most relevant to this type of analysis. Since ports are the major gateways for U.S.and Latin American trade, special attention is paid to existing methodologies that address port economic impacts.

 

Transportation in the Americas: Its Role in International Trade, Economic Integration, and Sustainable Development. Leigh B. Boske. 2000. 325 pp. Policy Research Project report No. 135.

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This research report provides a comprehensive examination of the role played by transportation in the Americas in fostering international trade, economic integration, and sustainable development.

 

Case Studies of Multimodal/Intermodal Transportation Planning Methods, Funding Programs, and Projects. Leigh B. Boske. 1999. 524 pp. Policy Research Project Report No. 132.

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This report is intended to provide detailed appraisal of a spectrum of multimodal/intermodal practices. It contains seven case studies of "Best Practical in Multimodal/Intermodal Planning Methods," six case studies of "Selected Multimodal/Intermodal Funding Programs," and five case studies "Selected Multimodal/Intermodal funding Programs." Several appendices at the end of the report contain relevant information on authorizing legislation, program application forms, funding eligibility criteria, cooperative agreements, and the like.

 

The Road to Sustainable Development: A Guide for Nongovernmental Organizations. Jurgen Schmandt. 1998. 324 pp. Policy Research Project Report No. 120.

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The report is divided into three parts. Part I presents a brief primer on sustainable development--what the term stands for, where it comes from, and what we have learned about it. Part II discusses eight case studies taken from seven countries--The United States, West Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, China, and India--which illustrate different approaches to sustainable development. It explores the methods, problems, and potential involved in using the concept of sustainability as a tool for positive change in communities. Part III presents lessons and other experiences of nongovernmental organizations in building a model to structure future sustainable development initiatives.

 

Multimodal/Intermodal Transportation in the United States, Western Europe, and Latin America: Governmental Policies, Plans, and Programs. Leigh B. Boske. 1998. 592 pp. Policy Research Project Report No. 130.

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The purpose of this book is to examine global "best practices" in governmental multimodal/intermodal transport policies, plans, and programs. This task was accomplished by investigating supranational, national, state, and local-government activities in North America, Western Europe, and Latin America. There is great diversity in the ways in which various levels of government (and their institutions) in different regions of the world have responded to the dynamics of worldwide trade liberalization and increasingly competitive markets in the provision of transportation infrastructure. There is much to be learned from understanding what others are doing, how they are doing it, and why.

 

Trade Corridors: The Emerging Regional Development Planning Unit in Latin America. Stephen O. Bender. 1998. 263-266 p. In Regional Development Planning in the 21^st Century: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC Forum) UNCRD Proceeding series No. 33. Nagoya, Japan: United Nations Centre for Regional Development.

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This paper shows the importance of trade corridors as a new regional development  planning context.

 

Regional and Local Government Planning and Decentralization are Pronounced with an "S" or the Role of Subsidies in Urban Planning Management: The Case of Natural Hazard Vulnerability. Stephen O. Bender. 1996.  In Local and Regional Development Planning and Management: In the Context of Decentralization Reforms in Latin America, edited by Claudia Hoshino. UNCRD Research Report Series, No. 18. Nagoya, Japan: United Nations Centre for Regional Development.

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Seminario Interamericano de Infraestructura de Transporte como Factor de Integración. Regional Development and Environment Department - Organization of American States. 1995. 494 pp. Final paper in spanish and executive summary in english.

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Transportation infrastructure and system are crucial both to support and consolidation of integration process and to development of general trade.

 

Urban Growth in Transition, Environmental Change and Natural Hazard Management in Latin America and the Caribbean. Stephen O. Bender. 1994. 31-38 p. In Latin American Regional Development in an Era of Transition: The Challenges of Decentralization, Privatization and Globalization, edited by Claudia P. Hoshino, Kenji Oya, Antonio L. Fernandez and Monte Cassim. UNCRD Research Report Series, No. 8. Nagoya, Japan: United Nations Centre for Regional Development.

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Trade Corridor Development and Transportation Sector Vulnerability Reduction. The Office for Sustainable Development and Environment (OSDE) supports the member states of the OAS in issues related to trade corridor development by contributing to an understanding of environmental management.  

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