In this paper we analyse some possible unconventional factors of efficiency in public transport. The occasion for such analysis rises from a case study in the southern Italian region of Sicily. Most of the regional bus service is here historically franchised to some local private bus companies,...

Auf den ersten Blick ist die Lage für die Eisenbahn in Deutschland recht günstig. Die Bahn konnte in den letzten Jahren, trotz eher ungünstiger intermodaler Rahmenbedingungen, ihren Marktanteil leicht ausbauen. Angesichts der aktuell intensiven Debatte darüber, wie sich die Klimaziele...

This chapter surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between the spatial distribution of economic activity and transportation costs. We develop a multiregion model of economic geography that we use to understand the general equilibrium implications of transportation...

This paper reviews the progress that has been made over the last half-century in modeling and analyzing the growth of transportation networks. An overview of studies has been provided following five main streams: net- work growth in transport geography; traffic flow, transportation planning, and...

Transportation infrastructure is an exciting topic for public policy, private sector and the connection between them. This study deals with the impact of railways as hard type of transportation infrastructure on economic growth and population density. The purpose of this study is to search for...

One of the main problems that hinder the development of railway transport in countries such as Bulgaria is the lack of fully liberalized market. As a result of the review of the Trans-European Transport Network Corridors in 2014, most of the Bulgarian transport strategy documents for the period...

In this paper, we analyze the effect of transport infrastructure investments in railways. As a testing ground, we use data from a new historical database that includes annual panel data on approximately 2,400 Swedish rural geographical areas during the period 1860-1917. We use a staggered event...

This paper delves into the developmental trajectory and future prospects of China Railway (CR) Express, a containerized railway freight service between the People's Republic of China (the PRC) and Europe, and examines the associated infrastructure investment needs for enhancing Eurasian freight...