While intercity passenger transport counts for about 2% of the total passenger transport volume the share of the total passenger kilometers traveled is estimated more than one third. In many countries the major part of intercity transport is performed by car and air and as a result, the...

Einführung -- Volkswirtschaftliches Denken -- Ordnungsmodelle in der Volkswirtschaft -- Licht und Schatten der Globalisierung -- Ex-post — Makroökonomie und Empirie -- Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung (VGR) -- Außenhandel und Zahlungsbilanz -- Geld und Kredit -- Ex ante —...

In German transport infrastructure provision, political decision-making and a lack of user charges are the main reasons for inefficiencies, such as underinvestment, misallocation of funds and congestions. In the last decades, transport policy in Germany has focused on network extensions, while...

In terms of risk, many appraisals of very large infrastructure investments assume, or pretend to assume, that infrastructure policies and projects exist in a predictable Newtonian world of cause and effect where things go according to plan. In reality, the world of policy and project preparation...