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,...

Many regions on the EU Eastern borders have developed favourably after the opening up of the border and the implementation of association agreements with the CEECs. This was often seen as a positive sign for the further perspectives of these regions after EU enlargement. In this paper we take a...

Der Forschungs- und Technologiebericht 2017 ist der Lagebericht über die aus Bundesmitteln geförderte Forschung, Technologie und Innovation in Österreich und wurde im Auftrag der Bundesministerien für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft (BMWFW) und Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie...

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...

Vor dem Hintergrund der massiven wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie und der Maßnahmen zu ihrer Eindämmung bietet das vorliegende Papier eine Abschätzung der relativen Betroffenheit der Wirtschaft der österreichischen Bundesländer in der derzeitigen Krisenphase. Die Analyse...