The European Commission years ago adopted a policy of encouraging the substitution of motor carrier haulage of freight with rail and water carrier haulage, as part of its “green” agenda of reducing fuel consumption, emission of pollutants, carbon intensity, and road congestion. Regarding...

America's surface transportation infrastructure needs significant improvements and rehabilitation, yet Congress is uncertain about how to do this. Some want to significantly increase federal spending on infrastructure. Others want to end deficit financing of transportation and end federal...

Sometime in 2010 or 2011, Congress expects to decide how to spend the $250 billion or more of federal gas taxes and other highway user fees that will be collected over the next six years. The process of doing so is called surface transportation reauthorization. A major point of contention in...

The routes of early railways around the world were generally inefficient because the prevailing doctrine of the time called for concentrating on provision of fast service between major cities and neglect of local traffic. Modern planners rely on methods such as the "gravity models of spatial...

The aim of the article is to present the ways of urban public transport development in Russia within the context of the transition towards the market economy. The article consists of two blocks: the trends of urban public transport development in the Russian Federation and the problems of urban...

Randal O'Toole reviews Robert Bruegmann's SPRAWL. Richard Gordon reviews Jan Kalicki and David Goldwyn's ENERGY AND SECURITY. George Leef reviews Joseph Vranich's END OF THE LINE. Richard Gordon reviews James Griffin and Stephen Puller's ELECTRICITY DEREGULATION

Transport is characterised by market failures that are of particular importance in urban settings. This paper reviews market failures and policy failures in The Netherlands for various transport markets, including road transport, public transport and biking. Special attention is paid to parking...

Transport is characterised by market failures that are of particular importance in urban settings. This paper reviews market failures and policy failures in The Netherlands for various transport markets, including road transport, public transport and biking. Special attention is paid to parking...

Luftverkehrsdienste benötigen ergänzende boden- und luftseitige Infrastrukturen. Kapazitätsbeschränkungen des Start- und Landebahnsystems eines Flughafens stellen einen erheblichen Engpass dar. Das Nutzungsrecht hängt von der Verfügbarkeit eines Slots ab. Wenn die Nachfrage nach Slots das...