This paper investigates the effect of the largest rail strikes in German history in 2014-2015 on long-distance buses - a newly liberalized market. Using a novel dataset of detailed bus ticket sales and rail cancellations, I find that the primary channel that drives ticket sales during the strike...

Corporate social responsibility is a complex concept, where ecology is one of the key elements. From the point of view of logistics, care for the environment and respect for non-renewable resources is a particularly important issue. The essence of logistics is the movement of people and cargo,...

The subject of the paper is to investigate the hypothetical perceptions of the impact of negative externalities on the expansion and development of selected Adriatic seaports. The aim of the paper is to show that Adriatic seaports must accept and apply the integration strategy as a key business...

Deutschland verfügt im internationalen Vergleich über eine relativ gut ausgebaute Verkehrsinfrastruktur. Aber nach dem Brückeneinsturz in Genua richtet sich auch in Deutschland das öffentliche Interesse auf ihren Zustand. Gibt es in Deutschland ebenfalls dringenden Erneuerungsbedarf für...

Die Züge im Fernverkehr kommen zu spät, die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Einheiten funktioniert nicht, die Gewinnprognosen sind pessimistisch, der Güterverkehr fährt Verluste ein und die Infrastruktur ist unterfinanziert: die Deutsche Bahn steht in der Kritik. Wie lassen sich spürbare...

Holger Mühlenkamp, Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer, nimmt Stellung zu einem Beitrag von Gernot Sieg und Berthold U. Wigger aus dem ifo Schnelldienst 22/2018 zum Thema »Auch in Zukunft Verkehrsinfrastruktur in ÖPP bereitstellen«. In seinem Kommentar stellt Holger...

This paper examines the impact of introducing high-speed trains on consumer welfare, taking the ensuing changes in train schedules into account. Based on the estimated demand model for travel which incorporates consumer's heterogeneous preferences for travel schedules into the standard...

One important issue facing reformers considering the restructuring of the seaports and freight railways sectors of a developing country is the creation of competition ­ or, alternatively, avoiding the creation or preservation of monopoly power. In seaports a crucial distinction is often that...

Recent rate increases by U.S. freight railroads have refocused attention on regulation, deregulation, and regulatory reforms in the railroad industry. Legislation introduced into Congress would render a variety of railroad behavior newly subject to the jurisdiction of the antitrust statutes,...

In this study we argue for a 'Big Push' in infrastructure investments in greater Europe. We propose the building of a European Silk Road, which connects the industrial centres in the west with the populous, but less developed regions in the east of the continent and thereby is meant to generate...