This paper argues that as a function of the federalist structure of Switzerland, policy projects are treated as if they were local public goods. In case of transport policy proposals with important spatial externalities, this may prove to be fatal for the integration of Swiss transport...

In view of increasing spatial interaction in Europe, missing transport networks represent a serious problem. In this paper, strategies of coping with the problem of missing networks are discussed from an economic policy perspective. It is argued that instead of the traditional approach of...