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Item Restricted Public transportation in Metro Manila (the shortage problem)(1980-05) Bocobo, Israel Jr.; Canlas, Dante B.Item Restricted Public transportation without jeepneys in Metro Manila?(1981-03) Nieva, Ma. Chona; Salcedo, Alberto M.Item Restricted Determinants of MRT3 [blue line] ridership(2006-04) Rosales, Katrina C.; Simbul, Lianne Marie C.; Tan, EditaItem Restricted The impact of transport system on income: an economic-geographic approach(2009-10) Agustin, Miriam B.; Gutierrez, Terrylou M.; Arcenas, Agustin L.Due to the increasing public transportation facilities in our country, interests in studying the interrelations of these road networks to growth and development potential, and economic activities have become extensive for the past years. This paper reviews and discusses the impact of municipal/city distance from nearest NLEX exit point on municipal/city income, and uses instrumental variables to establish causality. The review includes approaches based on the transport system interface and one of the common geography theories. The fields of Economics and Geography are employed to view the over-all impact of road networks and municipality structure on income. In the Philippines, one of its outstanding road transport systems is the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX). The economic model derives the criticality of the proximity of the NLEX to any municipality/city using concepts from welfare economics and geography. To derive approximate insights into assessing critical components, a model based on economic geography is developed. This model describes the effect of distance on spatial interactions, considering the importance of transport system. The authors conclude that proximity to a transport system is significantly related to locality income.Item Restricted A cost-benefit analysis of MMTC's double deck buses(1983-01) Umali, Doris; Sarmiento, LynetteItem Restricted The public transportation system of Metro Manila: a study(1984-03-17) Campos, Maria Amelia L.Item Restricted Efficiency in the implementation of the construction of the light rail transit project(1984-03-23) Marcos, Virginia Ursula L.; Go, Maria Cristina S.Item Restricted An assessment of the jeepney industry's efficiency(2005-01) Dizon, Geno Paolo M.; Mendoza, Peter James T.Item Restricted The income and transportation link in the Philippines: the effect of transportation investments on business(2008-03) Gregorio, Anika Faye B.; Reyes, Jaymie Ann R.This study aims to determine how transportation investments such as construction of roads and additional transit services affect the growth and development of businesses in Philippine provinces. An extended production function is used to test the hypothesis of the study that road construction has a positive and significant effect on business· growth. Moreover, adequate transit services, both public and private are also 'expected to aid in better trade and transport to and within the respective business centers of the provinces. On the other hand, it is also likely that the rapid increase in motor vehicles, especially private automobiles, creates excess road congestion which negatively affects the local businesses and industries. Business tax Revenue taken from the Bureau of Local Government Finance is used as a measure of business growth. Despite data limitations, the results of the regression analysis covering 2002 and 2004 data showed that public vehicles have a highly significant and direct relationship With business growth. On the other hand, the increase in private vehicles is found to have a negative and significant effect on the dependent variable. Road investments, measured by the amount of investments by the DPWH (in pesos) also have a positive effect on business growth; however, due to data limitations, . the variable is insignificant at 10%. This may be due to the unavailability of data that accurately captures the quality and permanence of roads in the country.Item Restricted Spending for vehicle congestion in Metro Manila(2009-10) Estopin, Danica Loy; Umlas, Anna Jennifer L.; Solon, OrvilleVehicular congestion is a serious problem faced by urban cities because it increases transportation expenditures. In this study, we try to estimate the vehicular congestion cost per household in the National Capital Region (NCR). The Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIBS) in 2003 is used. However, the FIBS does not have a direct measure of vehicular congestion. As an alternative we use NCR relative to other regions as a proxy variable for congestion. Because the sample contains households with zero private transportation expenditures, the Heckman Selection model is used to regress the household private transportation expenditure with respect to its socio- demographic characteristics. The vehicular congestion cost is computed by getting the partial derivative with respect to NCR. The results show that congestion costs are highest among postgraduates.