To mark its hundredth Round Table on transport economics, the ECMT decided to publish a special issue. Fifty European experts were asked to submit papers examining not only the major issues addressed by transport economics in the past, but also those that are likely to emerge in the future. What...

"We examine portage sites in the U.S. South, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest, including those on the fall line, a geomorphologic feature in the southeastern U.S. marking the final rapids on rivers before the ocean. Historically, waterborne transport of goods required portage around the falls at these...

Die Autorin analysiert in der vorliegenden Arbeit die Auswirkungen von Überlasten im Bereich Verkehrs-Infrastrukturen und konzipiert einen ordnungspolitischen Maßnahmenkatalog für eine effizientere Nutzung dieser Fazilitäten. Der ökonomische Basisvorschlag besteht in der Implementierung des...

Expanding airports is a topic which can easily make it to the first page of the national press. But this is highly unlikely as "bad news" is "good news" and most often failures and scandals make it to the front page. Berlin airport or the on-going failure to open up a nearly-complete new airport...