In German transport infrastructure provision, political decision-making and a lack of user charges are the main reasons for inefficiencies, such as underinvestment, misallocation of funds and congestions. In the last decades, transport policy in Germany has focused on network extensions, while...

Seit der Einführung der Lkw-Maut Anfang dieses Jahres sind erneut Forderungen laut geworden, eine Straßenbenutzungsgebühr auch für Personenkraftwagen einzuführen. Wie wirkt die Pkw-Maut unter Finanzierungs- und Lenkungsgesichtspunkten? Lässt sie sich politisch durchsetzen?

This paper quantifies the technical efficiency of German public bus transport companies and discusses main factors influencing their performance, using a stochastic production frontier approach. We test for the efficiency impact of ownership structure, competitive tendering, and potential...

This paper quantifies the technical efficiency of German bus companies and elaborates on the main factors influencing their performance. Efficiency is measured with a stochastic production frontier. We test for the impact on efficiency of ownership structure and participation at tendering....

We analyze the impact of different organizational structures on incentives to invest in railways: vertical integration, vertical separation, and a hybrid form. Economic theory predicts that vertical integration fosters socially optimal investment, whereas, due to potential hold-up problems, both...

In this paper we present an efficiency analysis of bus transport companies in Germany. It is focused on the calculation of scale efficiencies in order to identify possible economies of sca-le in the German bus transport market. For this purpose, we apply data envelopment analy-sis (DEA). As DEA...

Die Bundesregierung hat mit dem sog. "Konjunkturpaket II" auf die Wirtschaftskrise reagiert und stellt insgesamt fast 50 Mrd. € zur Verfügung. Die Mittel sollen großenteils für Investitionen in Infrastruktur genutzt werden. Ulrich Klüh und Wolfgang Wiegard, Sachverständigenrat zur...