Die Bundesverkehrswege (Bundesautobahnen, Bundesstraßen, Schienenwege der Deutschen Bahn AG, Bundeswasserstraßen) repräsentierten mit einem Brutto-Anlagevermögen von 633 Mrd. DM zum Jahresende 1998 ein beachtliches volkswirtschaftliches Vermögen. Durch die sich verschlechternde...

Die Vollendung des Binnenmarktes war über Jahrzehnte das wesentliche ökonomische Ziel der Europäischen Gemeinschaft. 1992/93 wurde es schließlich weitgehend - wenn auch nicht vollständig - erreicht. Während im Vorfeld dieses Datums intensiv über die möglichen Folgen der Vertiefung der...

<title>Abstract</title> While several European and national studies have dealt with the acceptability of road pricing schemes for passenger transport, only sparse research is available on this issue for freight transport. Against this background, the paper deals with the acceptability of the German road...

<title>Abstract</title> It is European Commission policy to charge modes of transport according to the marginal social cost of their use of the infrastructure, including environmental costs. However, progress in implementing this process has been slow, partly because of the difficulty of measuring and valuing...

As part of the Canadian contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY), several major international research programs have focused on offshore arctic marine ecosystems. The general goal of these projects was to improve our understanding of how the response of arctic marine ecosystems to...

The analysis of motorway renewal costs presented in this paper was driven by two research questions: First, to analyse the economic process of motorway renewal work and to identify whether there exist economies of scale; and second to identify the influence of traffic volume on renewal costs and...