Public transport infrastructure has not kept up with the demands of growing populations in cities in developing countries. Infrastructure provision has historically been biased against less affluent areas, so access to formal jobs is often difficult and costly for a large part of the...

On November 19,1971, during the 27th annual International Air Transportation Association’s ’ IATA ’ meeting, a new fare structure on the North Atlantic route was reached. Has this new agreement saved IATA as “a system of freely arrived-at and freely-respected basic rules”, or does this...

Recent years have seen a proliferation of platform-based “shared mobility services” (SMS) such as car-, bike-, and e-scooter-sharing in many cities in Germany and around the world. At the same time, these services have become the subject of intense debates: Are they replacing private car...

The European Commission has recently developed a growing awareness with respect to the challenges urban freight transport (UFT) poses to cities and, consequently, has started defining specific policies and promoting dedicated tools to address them. Transport is a shared responsibility between...

In Swedish national transport policy is freight transport regarded as a major facilitator for economic development on all geographical levels. At the same time it is noted that methods and data on business location and transportation is not adequate in order to follow-up transport policy...

The literature on policy mixes tends to focus on the instruments that different jurisdictions adopt to tackle public problems, and how policies may complement or conflict with each other. Fewer studies examine the factors that influence instrument choice, particularly within multilevel contexts,...

Der Pkw-Verkehr ist einer der wesentlichen Emittenten von Treibhausgasen. Daher werden mittlerweile in nahezu allen Industrieländern die spezifischen CO2-Emissionen beziehungsweise der spezifische Kraftstoffverbrauch der Fahrzeuge reguliert. Dieser Aufsatz gibt einen Überblick über die...

In this paper the strategic transport policy assessment instrument HIGH-TOOL is presented. The model has been developed for the European Commission, allowing policy-makers to identify the most advantageous transport policies and to strategically evaluate the impacts of transport policies on...