This paper looks at the main challenges that are facing the Transport sector in the countries of S. E. Europe after enlargement. First, it looks at the challenge of setting a common Transport policy and points as priority areas the questions of: frontier crossings, road transport quotas, working...

This paper presents an overview of the principles and technologies relating to railway infrastructure. Specifically this paper includes rail–wheel contact, inspection and maintenance of rail. Intelligent transport systems (ITS) and their applications for the purposes of the railway transport...

Railways are essential for the development and diversification of Mongolia’s economy. The Government of Mongolia recognizes that structural changes will be required to improve the efficiency of the rail sector and to provide incentives for private sector investment. A key step toward rail...

We measure the impact of low cost transport by rail in Malawi on the dispersion of agricultural commodities prices across markets, by exploiting the quasi experimental design of the nearly total collapse of domestic trade by rail in January 2003, due to the destruction of a railway bridge at...

Mit dem Vorhaben "Stuttgart 21" plant die Deutsche Bahn AG seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre die Umgestaltung des Bahnknotens Stuttgart und die Errichtung einer Neubaustrecke zur Anbindung des Flughafens Stuttgart. Das Projekt erreichte durch ausgeprägte Bürgerproteste in den Jahren 2010/2011...

As rail represents an efficient and sustainable transport system, the Trans-European railway network has become subject to special attention from European transport policy. The political objectives are to shift 30 % of freight to rail by 2030, 50 % by 2050, and to reduce passenger trips on road...

Mit dem Vorhaben "Stuttgart 21" plant die Deutsche Bahn AG seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre die Umgestaltung des Bahnknotens Stuttgart und die Errichtung einer Neubaustrecke zur Anbindung des Flughafens Stuttgart. Das Projekt erreichte durch ausgeprägte Bürgerproteste in den Jahren 2010/2011...