Der Straßengüterverkehr in Deutschland hat ein enormes Ausmaß angenommen: Mehr als 80 Prozent der gesamten volkswirtschaftsweiten Gütertonnage in Deutschland oder – in absoluten Zahlen– etwa drei Milliarden Tonnen Waren werden jährlich per Lkw transportiert. Entwicklungen wie die Tendenz...

As part of a study aimed at estimating suburban highway needs for year 2005, models were developed for forecasting daily vehicle miles of travel (DVMT) for urban areas and its distribution by highway functional class, urban location, and urban area size. A regression model combining both time...

Transportation-related decisions of people often depend on what everybody else is doing. For example, decisions about mode choice, route choice, activity scheduling, etc., can depend on congestion, caused by the aggregated behavior of others. From a conceptual viewpoint, this consistency problem...

It is certainly desirable that transportation forecasting models are correct in the sense that the traffic patterns they predict correspond to what would happen in reality under the circumstances assumed in the forecasting model. Unfortunately, it is notoriously difficult to transform the above...

The impact of automobile transport is recognised (without exaggeration) by every one of us. At daily commuting to the work, holidays, free time-time activities and so on traffic participant register certain level traffic volume. Level of volume is fundamental for speed of participant’s...

Abstract The development of every nation is measured through its grade of industrialization and especially its transportation system development. But this development can only be achieved by respecting and fulfilling the goals of sustainable mobility. This paper presents the concept of...

This thesis examines the relationship between population structure and the real exchange rate in 23 OECD countries over the period 1980–2006. The motivation for this research stems mainly from the Life-Cycle Hypothesis (LCH) of consumption and saving. According to this hypothesis people...

This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal decentralisation, focusing in particular on the impact of the level of income on the level of fiscal decentralisation. Various measures of fiscal decentralisation, several of them novel in this context, are employed in a cross-country...

The literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) provides evidence on the relation from FDI to growth in the presence of some absorptive qualities such as existing level of development, financial market depth, trade policies and human capital thresholds. The analysis of FDI inflows in the...