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How do local infrastructure investments impact on an area’s economic performance either in isolation or through complementarities with other investments such as housing or commercial property?

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BEIS is striving to create fairer, inclusive and flexible workplaces so that everyone has the change to succeed, whilst balancing home and work life. We will unlock enterprise and cut burdens to help businesses start and grow, while reforming corporate governance and improving boardroom diversity. To that end, BEIS needs research to better understand the following:

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Beis areas research interest interim update 2020

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    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project directly investigates the implications of transport investments for the spatial economy, including effects on productivity, employment, and wages.

  • DAFNI-ROSE

    Infrastructure provides the backbone of modern societies. In our daily lives, we depend on supplies of water and energy, road, rail and other transport networks, communication networks, and waste disposal and recycling, ...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: Science and Technology Facilities Council

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project discusses the impact of infrastructure on society and the environment, but does not directly address the impact of local infrastructure investments on economic performance.

  • Metrocare: Strategic decision-making for integrated urban infrastructure

    Cities throughout the world face long term strategic challenges in delivering large scale physical infrastructure development whilst addressing social and economic changes and challenges. In delivering such major program...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: UNIT 9 LIMITED

  • The degrowth transition of infrastructures in the urbanised periphery. Mapping processes and uncovering socio-economic impacts in Southern Europe

    According to the UN, 2.5 billion people will join the world's urban population by 2050, and, as per Europe's own demographic projection, 83.7% of its population will live in urban areas by then. However, most will not se...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: King's College London

  • UKCRIC National Linear Infrastructure Laboratory - University of Southampton

    There is an urgent need, and a transformative opportunity, to develop and exploit major advances in scientific understanding (including in the social and environmental sciences), multidisciplinary systems thinking, techn...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Southampton

  • ReVISIONS - Regional Visions of Integrated Sustainable Infrastructure Optimised for NeighbourhoodS

    This research proposal by the ReVISIONS consortium aims to provide the knowledge for public agencies and companies to plan regional infrastructure for transport, water, waste, and energy, (ranging from large capital sche...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Cambridge

  • UK Regions Digital Research Facility (UK RDRF)

    The UK RDRF brings together a number of research strands funded under the DET, EPSRC and ESRC portfolios over the last decade to create a national facility to tackle the vexed question of regional competitiveness and reb...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: University College London

  • PROVIT - Planning Requirements Optioneering Visualisation Investment Tool

    "Cities throughout the world face long-term strategic challenges in delivering large-scale physical infrastructure development whilst addressing social and economic changes and challenges. In delivering such major p...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: UNIT 9 LIMITED

  • Infrastructure Ahead

    "Infrastructure Ahead" will revolutionise the way infrastructure providers, utility supplers and planning authorities forecast and respond to end-use demand. Our Decision Support System (DSS) will forecast end-...

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