The toll to be imposed on heavy-goods vehicles will drive up the cost of using motorways with the distance driven. As a consequence, it will provide an incentive to improve the utilisation of cargo space. Transports for hire or reward are better positioned to exploit streamlining options than...

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 Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) now offers a complete door-to-door parcel service, combined with other logistical services ("ExpressCargo"). In doing so, they have intensified competition with private haulage contractors. By contrast, the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and the German Railway...

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...