The paper assesses the economic impact of a toll imposed on heavy-goods vehicles proportional to distance driven. The macroeconomic impact of the toll is estimated by using the disaggregated econometric model MULTIMAC of the Austrian economy. The assumption is that all toll revenues will be...

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,...

In most European states, large stretches of forest are public property. In Austria, 15 percent of the country's forests belong to the federal government (Austrian Federal Forests, ÖBF), and another 3 percent are in the hands of provinces and communities. Public ownership of forests has its...

Over the past decade, truck transportation in Austria grew at almost double the rate of rail goods transport. EU enlargement and the expiry of the eco-points system will further accelerate the growth of road transport. Ever more frequent traffic jams, a high incidence of accidents, enormous...