On the economic impact of the railway project Stuttgart-Ulm in Germany

The German railway project “Stuttgart-Ulm” is part of the high-speed line between Paris/France and Budapest/Hungary as well as Bratislava/Slovakia. It includes the parts “Stuttgart 21” (abbreviation of “Stuttgart in 21st century”) and the new railway-line Wendlingen-Ulm (to cross the mountains of Swabian Alp). Its realization started in February 2010, and it is expected to be finished in 2019. Although having passed all legal procedures successfully this project since years was discussed very controversially within local and regional population. As for the economic impact, ministry for internal affairs of province (Land) Baden-Württemberg of Germany ordered an expert opinion made on basis of a national input-output-table of Germany of year 2004 with 71 commodity groups. Subject of the paper is a rough control of the result of this expert opinion by the actual input-output-table for the year 2006 available to public via the Statistical Yearbook of Federal Republic of Germany 2010 with 12 commodity groups (published in September 2010).[...]