In a recent ECLAC study of inefficiency at border crossings in Mercosur countries, it was found that the cost of delays in traffic between...
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La presente edición del Boletín FAL informa sobre un estudio y dos eventos recientes que han tenido el propósito de promover el desarrollo...
The process of urbanization in Latin America presents new challenges for urban transport systems insofar as one of the priorities is to provide...
Resumen En este documento se examina la evolución del empleo industrial en la Argentina en el período 1995-2000. Para ello se utiliza una base...
1) International Trade and Transport Profiles of Latin American Countries, by Jan Hoffmann, Gabriel Pérez, and Gordon Wilmsmeier, ECLAC, Serie 19...
A number of cities in Latin America played host to workshops on measures for reducing traffic congestion, as part of efforts to publicize the...
Transport planning necessarily takes into account more than just the immediate time-frame. In the case of urban transport, planning needs to come...
-MARITIME TRANSPORT AND PORTS: A TANGIBLE EVOLUTION FOR THE USER-RAILWAYS: IN SEARCH OF NEW NICHES-ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE: A POSITIVE PICTURE IN 2001...
A seminar on competition and complementarity between road and rail transport in the carriage of freight was conducted at ECLAC Headquarters on 6-7...
Traffic congestion has become a severe scourge in large cities, in both the industrialized and developing countries. Increasing demand for urban...
Building the infrastructure and then operating a railroad which starts on the Pacific coast of South America and which, a few score kilometres...
This issue of the Bulletin introduces the reader to the Latin American Metro and Subway Association (ALAMYS), which throughout its 15-year history...
The growing use of e-commerce and the need to generate efficient solutions to problems such as traffic jams and the physical distribution of...
The outlook for inter-modal transport in Latin America at the end of 1999 was a complex one, fraught with uncertainties and unresolved issues. On...
For the countries of the Caribbean, the international trade and transport of goods are more important than for many others in the region (see FAL...
For over a quarter of a century, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has been in the vanguard of the search for...
Urban transport in the largest Latin American and Caribbean cities consumes about 3.5% of regional GDP — a percentage that is inflated by the...
The SETAS pilot project was carried out by the ECLAC Transport Unit, between October 1999 and May 2000 to assess the feasibility of constructing a...
Since late 1999, ECLAC has maintained an international transport database (BTI) containing statistics on foreign trade and associated transport...