In der verkehrspolitischen Diskussion werden bedarfsgesteuerte Angebotsformen des öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs (ÖPNV) vielfach als geeignete Ergänzung des sich in nachfrageschwachen Räumen ausdünnenden traditionellen ÖPNV betrachtet, um auf den Qualitätsnachteil gegenüber dem...

Since "Belt and Road initiative" (BRI) has been launched, the major volume of academic studies focus on the consideration of Eurasian land and maritime transport routes. Experts on Chinese foreign policy and geopolitical strategy emphasize possible positive and negative aspects of the initiative...

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...

In the Great Valley Center’s Spring 2000 report, the Survey of Current Area Needs (SCAN), access to services (especially related to healthcare) was consistently cited as an issue facing communities in California’s Central Valley. Many Valley communities are isolated from important services...

A review of John Sewell's book, The Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Toronto’s Sprawl. Sewell discusses the role of government highway and sewer spending in opening up Toronto's suburbs for development

The 'backhaul problem' is characterized by an imbalance in transport flows between locations. This problem is usually studied in a perfectly competitive framework, which essentially predicts that when the imbalance is sufficiently large, the freight price of transport from low demand regions to...

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...

This research assesses preferences for clean-fuel vehicles (CFVs) versus the conventional vehicle using a discrete choice experiment. The results show that although consumers value environmental impact, vehicle performance characteristics are critical to choice. It is found that regulation is...

Growing awareness about the environmental hazards of increasing concentration of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide etc. in the atmosphere resulting in global warming and increasing demand of energy with rapidly increase population, throws urgent need for exploring...