Abstract

ABSTRACT Assessing the employment effects of changes in transport infrastructure, such as the construction of the Channel Tunnel or high‐speed rail connections, is not an easy task. The gravity model is sometimes used to analyse changes in the potentials of the regions concerned. One step further would he the translation of changes in potentials into changes in employment per region. This paper will he devoted to analysing some properties and limitations of such a translation process. Special attention is paid to an operational model developed by Evers et al. (1987) for this purpose. It is shown that this model is “almost” consistent with the theory of locational behaviour of firms.

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