Peter Nijkamp

Regulatory parking policies at the firm level

This paper is focused on the intersection of two main policy ‘tracks’ followed in the Netherlands for the containment of road transport externalities: transport plans at the firm level, and regulatory parking policies. In this paper an applied modelling approach is taken, and the aim is to identify the relative importance of factors that are decisive for the viability of an individual firms parking policies. The outcomes of an empirical survey conducted at the corporate level of the Free University in Amsterdam are used to discuss the social feasibility of regulatory parking policies conducted at the firm level (in terms of the employees attitudes) and the effectiveness of such policies. Insight is provided into relevant backgrounds and obstacles serving to affect employees commuting behaviour and that are likely to be encountered in the formulation of regulatory transport policies at the firm level. Moreover, the outcomes of this research may be relevant for the evaluation of regulatory parking policies at larger spatial scales (for example, neighbourhood parking schemes).

Regional Variations in Production Network Externalities

CAPELLO R. and NIJKAMP P. (1996) Regional variations in production network externalities, Reg. Studies, 30, 225–237. In the present paper the main area of analysis is the concept of network externalities and its interpretation from a theoretical, conceptual and empirical point of view. A conceptual framework is built on the proposition that network externalities are one of the decisive reasons for entering a telecommunication network. Since externality mechanisms arise at the user side and impact on the demand function, they can be labelled “consumption network externalities”. However, this paper goes a step further than the recent literature by claiming that telecommunication networks are not only governed by consumption network externalities, but also generate production network externalities, since their advantages may be measured in terms of the performance of firms and regions. The paper presents a conceptual model on the role network externality plays on the performance of firms and regions, a metho...