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Effects of Transport Infrastructure Improvement on the International and Domestic Freight Flow in Japan
| Author | Kazuhiko Ishiguro, Yoshihiro Kameyama |
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| Date of Publication | 2009. 3 |
| No. | 2009-11 |
| Download | 307KB |
Contents Introduction
This paper examined Japanese domestic distribution structure from the relation between industrial accumulation and transport infrastructure in order to reveal the structure of freight flow and its changes from 1980 to 2000, on the basis of the Logistics Census, Census of Manufacturing, and Social Overhead Capital in Japan. Our findings, as an average characteristic (evidence) of Japanese transport structure, indicate that both domestic and international freight flow are strongly linked to the scale economies emerging from industrial accumulation, and that transport infrastructure does not contribute to an increase in the overseas shipping volume; however, it does increase the volume to domestic regions. However, this suggests that transport infrastructure on the shipping to other domestic regions is maintained enough, and this has contributed to reorganization (relocation) of industrial accumulation in Japan.