Transportation contributes to roughly a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions, and as a growing sector of the economy, its contribution to climate change, if remained unchanged, could even grow. This is particularly true in the developing world, where the growth rates of air and ship transport are...

Purpose – Electric vehicles are very topical in developed countries. The breakthrough of new battery technologies and changing conditions driven by climate policy and growing fossil fuel prices has caused all major car manufacturing countries in the developed world to initiate R&D programmes...

In German transport infrastructure provision, political decision-making and a lack of user charges are the main reasons for inefficiencies, such as underinvestment, misallocation of funds and congestions. In the last decades, transport policy in Germany has focused on network extensions, while...

The traditional answer of economists to the problem of internalising external costs of transport is “setting prices right”. In a neoclassical economic world this would correspond to setting prices according to marginal social costs. The neoclassical world is far from reality, however, and...

<i> L'importanza della rete di trasporti transeuropea per l'integrazione e la crescita dell'Unione europea allargata </i> (di Werner Rothengatter) - ABSTRACT: Fostering integration and economic growth is a premier goal of the transport policy of the European Commission. In the White Paper on Common...