Der Güterkorridor Rotterdam-Genua gilt als eine der wichtigsten Nord-Süd-Verbindungen im europäischen Schienenverkehr. Zugleich bestehen erhebliche Kapazitätsengpässe in diesem leistungsfähigen Korridor, wobei der noch nicht ausgebaute Streckenabschnitt zwischen Karlsruhe und Basel ein...

This study examines the interrelationship between railway development and air patronage in China from 1993 to 2012 by type of railway development and city pair distance. Two types of railway development are considered: railway extension and an increase in railway speed. Results of the panel data...

In diesem Buch wird die technische Pionierleistung des Wirtschaftstheoretikers Friedrich List (1789-1846), die er für den Ausbau der Eisenbahn in den USA vollbracht hat, eindrucksvoll dargestellt. Mit dem Bau der Little Schuylkill-Eisenbahn in Pennsylvania förderte List die Infrastruktur des...

Railways were one of the main engines of the Latin American trade boom before 1914. Railway construction often required financial support from local governments, which depended on their fiscal capacity. However, since the main government revenues were trade‐related, this generated a two‐way...

Railways were one of the main engines of the Latin American trade boom before 1914. Railway construction often required financial support from local governments, which depended on their fiscal capacity. But since the main government revenues were trade-related, this generated a two-way feedback...

In an emerging economy, transport planners have a difficult task of allocating scarce and costly capital amongst the available shelf of railway projects to effectively meet the increasing demands for railway infrastructure. Hitherto, a single criterion such as IRR was being used for ranking and...

This paper investigates the dynamic impacts of rural road improvements on farm productivity and crop choices in Zambia's Eastern Province. There are several channels through which the feeder road improvements impact on farmers. Our aim is to estimate whether the differential outcomes in the five...

In this paper we describe the EAR (regional economic accessibility) model to investigate the impact of the improvement of railroad infrastructure on regional GDP, population and firms growth in 99 Austrian regions. We evaluate the impact of four potential railroad infrastructure investment...

This volume was prepared by Erik Hornung while he was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The thesis consists of four core...