A Study on the Effects of the New Tohoku Trunk Line

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyse quantitatively the economic effects of the New Tohoku Trunk Line, that is expected to generate a big effect to the development in many regions in the Tohoku provinces. The study is at an interim stage now, and I attempted to show in this paper the model with which the economic effects of investment on the transport facilities can be analysed, and investigate the problem of valueing the economic effects.
The characteristic of the model is one calculating economic effects on the regional income which change by investment on the transport facilities through the distance factor in many courses of economic mechanism.