The transport of road goods across the Alps constitutes a problem both for European transportation and for the Alpine environment. Austria and Switzerland have made a number of attempts to decelerate the growth in lorry transit volume and shift transport onto the rail modes. After ten years,...

Heavy trucks without special noise control devices will be forbidden to use certain transit routes through Austria during nights starting December 1, 1989. Not only foreign transporters will be forced to adjust to this measure, also domestic carriers will have to adapt transport equipment and...