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Transportation Letters
The International Journal of Transportation Research
Volume 12, 2020 - Issue 7
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Research Article

Multiple pathways of transportation investment to promote economic growth in China: a structural equation modeling perspective

Pages 471-482 | Published online: 24 Jun 2019
 

ABSTRACT

Transportation investment has served as one of the most promising economic instruments to lower transportation costs and promote economic growth. To enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of such kind of capital investments, one critical issue is to gain a better understanding of the pathways that transportation investment would have to influence economic growth. By using a provincial panel data in China, this study attempts to investigate how transportation investments impact economic growth through a variety of pathways. Structural equation modeling (SEM) is applied to understand the relationship between transportation investment, investment in relevant sectors, industrial structure, employment growth, and economic development. It finds that investment in transportation sectors can promote economic growth through direct and multiple indirect pathways. The indirect pathways can improve economic performance through the investments in relevant sectors, growth of industry and employment growth. These impacts would be significantly changed under diverse spatial and temporal conditions.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

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Funding

The Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China [19YJC790074]; the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [LQ19D010003]; the Soft Science Foundation of Ningbo Municipal Government [2018A10018]; the Teaching Reform Key Research Project of Ningbo University [JYXMXZD201928]; and the K. C. Wong Magna Fund from Ningbo University. 

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