The political changes in the East will have a strong impact on the infrastructure of the Austrian transportation system. Austria will not only be an important destination for those tourists that were prevented by the Iron Curtain from travelling abroad, it will also be engulfed by the stream of...

The forestry sector would benefit from Austria's participation in the single EC market since export restrictions for timber would fall. Besides, it would facilitate the establishment of foreign subsidiaries and hence enhance competition for domestic timber. Of crucial importance, however, would...

The competitive strength of motor car traffic vis-à-vis other means of transport is partly due to the fact that the society as a whole bears some of the costs of transportation, accidents and environmental pollution. In order to remove such distortions to competition and to limit physical and...

Austria is well endowed with a well-developed transport infrastructure. Nevertheless, regularly occurring congestion in the urban areas and transit routes during vacation periods and inadequate transport links to its eastern neighbours make it necessary to further expand the country's road and...

A special toll is levied on users of the Arlberg tunnel, the Brenner motorway, the pass section of the Tauern motorway, and the Karawanken, Bosruck and Gleinalm tunnels. Construction of these segments was financed external (bonds, other loans), in order to meet traffic requirements earlier than...

Both the EU and Austria target their road transport policies at eliminating infrastructure bottlenecks, securing the requisite investment financing and reducing the environmental and accident costs of road traffic. Taxes and dues imposed on motorisation can be designed so as to compensate for...

In Austria, roundwood prices are essentially shaped by export prices for timber products and thus by the global market. This applies particularly to the highly competitive market for sawlogs where fluctuations in export prices for sawnwood have a direct effect on the domestic roundwood prices....