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Until recently, the Channel with its ferry services presented a major transport barrier to free movement of passengers and goods in Europe. If through the Channel Tunnel this bottleneck is removed, significant impacts on regional development at either end can be expected. However, many questions are not easily answered: In which ways will different types of regions and different sectors in those regions be affected by the development of such a major new transport infrastructure? Will the impacts be limited to the regions directly adjacent to the Tunnel exits, or will they be spread out over a larger area? Will they be more pronounced at the British or at the Continental end? Will the Channel Tunnel benefit mostly the already highly industrialized and urbanized regions in central Europe and so increase concentration of activities and hence the spatial disparities in Europe, or will it tend to equalize the accessibility surface in Europe and hence have a decentralization effect?
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Spiekermann, K., Wegener, M. (1997). The Channel Tunnel and Regional Development: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods. In: Quinet, E., Vickerman, R. (eds) The Econometrics of Major Transport Infrastructures. Applied Econometrics Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13977-4_7
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