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Measuring the effects of transportation infrastructure location on real estate prices and rents: investigating the current impact of a planned metro line

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This research was partly funded through the SustainCity project, co-financed by the European Commission within the FP7 program. The first author is grateful for the scholarships awarded by (i) the Special Fund for Research Grants of NTUA for his PhD studies, and (ii) the Swiss Government for his visit at EPFL in Switzerland.

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  1. Laboratory of Transportation Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Polytechneiou, 15780, Athens, Greece

    Dimitrios Efthymiou & Constantinos Antoniou

  2. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Dimitrios Efthymiou

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Efthymiou, D., Antoniou, C. Measuring the effects of transportation infrastructure location on real estate prices and rents: investigating the current impact of a planned metro line. EURO J Transp Logist 3, 179–204 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13676-013-0030-4

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