The Austrian Federal Railway ÖBB was given a legal personality of its own on 1 January 1993. Its board was granted considerably more leeway in its decision-making power. The transport policy framework within which the ÖBB is set has changed in that bilateral truck transport with EU countries...

The fights in Slovenia and Croatia interrupted some important transport links to South-Eastern-Europe. The decline of Austria's foreign trade with Yugoslavia accelerated. Austria's tourism industry benefitted to some extent from the collapse of tourism in Yugoslavia. Retail and wholesale firms...

The transport sector gets its importance not just from its role in keeping an economy on the roll, but also from its function as a major employer. Transport businesses and manufacturers producing transport-related investment and consumer goods, consumables and services together employ some...

Market revenues of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) have increasingly lagged behind expenditure, necessitating ever higher subsidies from the Federal government. Other railway companies too, rely heavily on public transfers. On the basis of the 1995 financial accounts the article develops a...

Fuel for motor vehicles is currently more expensive in Austria than in most neighboring countries. Apart from taxation (mineral oil tax and VAT), the price net of tax is also comparatively high. As from May 1, 1995, when the mineral oil tax on petrol and diesel will be raised, petrol will be...

Die Österreichischen Bundesbahnen, die Deutsche Bahn und die Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen haben in den letzten 17 Jahren ein beachtliches Investitionsprogramm realisiert. Am kräftigsten haben die SBB investiert, die Ertragslage der SBB hat sich jedoch arg verschlechtert. Die DB investierte...

In late 1997, the EU Commission reviewed its Transit Agreement with Austria, concluding that the ecopoints systems was an effective means to reduce pollution caused by lorries driving through Austria. Yet heavy transport frequencies continued to grow in the sensitive Alpine valleys, the result...