Die Corona-Krise verändert auch den Stadtverkehr. Welche Chance bietet sich, die auf das Auto fixierte Verkehrsordnung grundlegend zu überholen?

Seit fast zehn Jahren können die Länder nach dem Gesetz zur Regionalisierung des öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs Leistungen des Schienenpersonennahverkehrs im Wettbewerb vergeben. Obwohl durch öffentliche Ausschreibungen deutliche Effizienz gewinne zu erwarten sind, wenden die Länder...

This paper discusses a number of issues centred around the evaluation of the benefits and costs of transport. It is argued that, for various reasons, transport cannot be treated as an ‘ordinary’ economic sector, and in the paper the policy implications of a number of the sector’s...

The Baltic Sea region has been subject to processes of both disintegration and integration. On the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, former CMEA trade relations as well as the traditional system of Soviet socialist division of labour has disintegrated after 1991. With the exception of the...

We study the role of distance and time in statistically explaining price dispersion across 32 Swedish towns for 19 commodities from 1732 to 1914. The resulting large number of relative prices (502,689) allows precise estimation of distance and time effects, and their interaction. We find an...

Rapid economic and demographic change in the Greater Dublin Area over the last decade, with associated increases in car dependence and congestion, has focused policy on encouraging more sustainable forms of travel. In this context, knowledge of current travel patterns and their determinants is...