China has suffered railway capacity constraints for more than several decades and the need for a large increase in rail capacity has been viewed as the primary challenge. The former Chinese Ministry of Railways believed that building a national wide high speed railway (HSR) network was the most...

Most poor people of the world reside in rural areas, which are frequently characterized by low levels of public infrastructure, especially roads. Inadequate roads raise transport costs, limiting the use poor people can make of local markets for the sale of their produce, the purchase of consumer...

Wolfgang Gerstenberger schätzt die für das Transportgewerbe entstehenden Kosten bei Grenzkontrollen an der Südgrenze von Österreich und Deutschland.

Die Diskussion um den Starttermin für die Maut für Lastkraftwagen in Deutschland ist seit Sommer 2003 ein Dauerbrenner auf der politischen Agenda. In diesem Artikel soll diskutiert werden, was das deutsche Mautsystem leisten kann und wie es – mit einigen Modifizierungen – als...

The current focus of transportation policy around disruptive events is to adopt an engineering resilience-oriented approach, which focuses on returning assets to good workable order as soon as possible. This will remain critically important in the future to reduce the scale and severity of...

Last year the Commission on Reducing Counterproductive Market Regulations (Deregulation Commission), appointed by the German Federal Government in 1987, put forth its first report dealing with regulations on German transport and insurance markets. Following a consequent market-oriented approach,...