Two case studies are assessed in an attempt to understand in more detail the way in which transport and innovation policy interact in Austria and what kind of mechanisms exist to facilitate the communication between the two policy areas. The first case study concentrates on the RTD programmes in...

Seit Jahrzehnten zeigt der Güterverkehr in Deutschland und in den wichtigsten EU-Staaten ein starkes Wachstum, welches seit einigen Jahren das des Perso-nenverkehrs deutlich übertrifft. Diese Wachstumsdynamik des Güterverkehrs wird kritisch gesehen: Die Kapazitätsengpässe in der...

In the European Union (EU) and in Germany the transport sector is the only sector with increasing CO2 emissions (in the EU by about 32 % and in Germany by about 1 % since 1990). Especially in road freight and air transport a further strong increase is forecasted. In the transport sector this...

We analyze the expected effects of building a rail tunnel between Lyon and Turin on i) the market shares of the established and the new suppliers, and ii) consumer surplus. The prospective project consists of a 53km rail tunnel providing freight shippers with a new alpine path. We calibrate an...

This paper investigates the effect of freight transport time savings (FTTS) on the performance of transport consuming companies. In the first part existing methods on FTTS valuation are critically discussed and their limitations are identified. Following, a conceptual model is built introducing...

The Kenyan transport system is still to a large extent structured by physical infrastructure, legislation and institutions developed during the colonial period, and by import-substitution policies which during the first decades after independence to a large extent allowed the transport system to...

The present paper aims to analyse interregional freight transport movements in Europe in order to forecast spatio-temporal patterns of new transport economic scenarios.In view of the high dimension of our data-base on transport flows, two different approaches are compared, viz. the logit model...