Many governments promote green technological innovation within the automobile sector as a means of combating climate change. Most of these innovations are driven by alternative fuels. Buyer's premiums and governmental investment in service infrastructure are widely used. This paper investigates...

This work analyses the risk allocation between government and concessionaire in the High Speed Train (HST) Project from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo and Campinas. The concession model proposed by the government to transfer the HST operation to private firms in 2010 was revised in 2012, with the...

The waterway transportation is considered the most efficient. Moreover, Brazil has many rivers, besides the extensive coastline, appropriate to navigation. However, this mode of transport is not widely used in the country, especially inland. This study evaluates the possible causes for this....

In April 2013, the Assembly of the Budapest Municipality radically transformed the taxi market in Budapest. This case study analyses the events that led to this decision and also the measure's immediate impact. The study is part of the research project, titled "The Unexpected Consequences and...

This survey of recent developments includes reports updating continuing controversies regarding foreign poaching in Australian fisheries and whaling in the Southern Ocean, as well as significant changes to Australian policy and procedure regarding illegal immigration by sea. Among the cases...

Reviews the various articles of the IIR2001, and lays out the theme of having the appropriate market structure and regulation in various sectors of physical infrastructure including electricity, telecom, water and sewage, transportation and energy

German Abstract: Auf der Grundlage der methodologischen Herangehensweise von Haucap/Heimeshoff/Uhde (2007) und Russel Pitmann (2002) sollte im Folgenden die Frage der vertikalen Entflechtung des russischen Gassektors behandelt werden, der durch das Unternehmen Gazprom monopolisiert wird. Demnach...

This article suggests ways to build toll free national highways in quick time. The expansion of the road network in the future needs huge amount of investment which has to be collected from the users. I suggest that the users are divided into two categories the rich pay and the poor do not. The...