Throughout the world land use and fragmentation are among the major causes of the de-struction of habitats and the resulting loss of biological diversity. Road use in general and road haulage in particular significantly and still increasingly evoke both causes. Largely due to biodiversity's high...

Die wirtschaftliche Aktivität im Transportsektor schwankt erfahrungsgemäß stark mit der Konjunktur. Dennoch fanden entsprechende Indikatoren bisher wenig Beachtung in der Konjunkturanalyse, was in erster Linie auf ihre späte Veröffentlichung zurückzuführen sein dürfte. Mit der...

The International Transport Forum at the OECD has collected data on various taxes and charges levied on road haulage since 1998. The existing International Transport Forum database presents these results for selected years between 1998 and 2008. These data allow for comparison of road freight...

Für die kommenden Jahre prognostizieren Experten ein wachsendes Verkehrsaufkommen, das nur mit effektiven und schnell umsetzbaren Lösungen bewältigt werden kann. Neben dem Infrastrukturausbau und der Verlagerung auf umweltfreundliche Verkehrsträger wie Bahn und Binnenschifffahrt steht dem...

Using evidence from recent work on truckers and disaggregated older data prior researchers did not have, we revisit a classic topic and find some new answers. We focus on differentials in average annual earnings at the firm level among mileage-paid over-the-road tractor-trailer drivers ("road...

Local road investments work for growth and poverty reduction in local areas. The paper highlights the importance of investing in local roads and directs attention to the critical role of local government units (LGUs) in improving the local road network. Raising additional monies to fund local...

We present the operationalized Toll Index, which is a new type of early indicator for the German business cycle. We present the basic idea and document the power of the indicator for the purpose of nowcasting. The data will be regularly available at the IDSC, the data bank center of IZA and will...

Using CPS data for the period 1979-2009, the wage dispersion of truck drivers (and subsets of the truck driving sample) is compared to the trends in wage dispersion of males economy-wide. We find that truckers' wages experienced a decrease in inequality post-deregulation, as expected given the...

We present the operationalized Toll Index, which is a new type of early indicator for the German business cycle. We present the basic idea and document the power of the indicator for the purpose of nowcasting. The data will be regularly available at the IDSC, the data bank center of IZA and will...

Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The index measures the monthly transportation activity performed by heavy transport vehicles across...