2009 was a bleak year for freight rates in liner sectors. The deepening of the global financial crisis has affected, severely, the demand for commodities and goods. By the end of 2009, rates in liner sectors had recovered from their earlier lows, despite remaining significantly beneath 2008...

The report addresses passenger rail transport and its main purpose is to evaluate if and to what extent, reductions of the travel times or increases in train frequency in the European Railway System may lead to an increase in accessibility for users and a reduction of costs, resulting in an...

Today, in Romania, we can state that may require regulatory intervention where public interest is expected to differ materially from the commercial interests of public service providers usually private companies. Yet, the literature states this situation as „market failure” considering that...

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...

We study competitive awarding procedures of short haul railway passenger services in Germany from 1995 to 2011 by means of a newly collected data set. In particular, we use regression techniques to investigate the determinants of the number of bidders, the identity of the winning bidder and the...

We study competitive awarding procedures of short haul railway passenger services in Germany from 1995 to 2011 by means of a newly collected data set. In particular, we use regression techniques to investigate the determinants of the number of bidders, the identity of the winning bidder and the...

Scholars and local planners are becoming increasingly interested in the contribution of tourism to economic and social development. In the European cities that currently lead the world rankings for tourist arrivals, local governments have actively promoted tourism. Mobility is an essential issue...