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  • Press Releases // 05.06.2019

    in the city. “Mannheim is directly connected to the Rotterdam-Genoa freight corridor, which is the most important European transport route, generating the highest turnover in Europe. The Rhine-Neckar

  • "Horizon Europe" soll wirtschaftliches Wachstum mit Innovation und gesellschaftlichen Anforderungen zusammenzubringen.
    News // 14.12.2017

    agriculture, unemployment insurance, asylum and refugee policy, education, development, rail and freight transport, corporate taxation, and defence. Researchers evaluated a possible reallocation of competencies

  • News // 21.09.2017

    Recently, the Federal Minister of Transport, Alexander Dobrindt, announced a 350-million-euro subsidy for 2018, designed to lower track charges for freight transport and encourage shippers to move from [...] total costs and benefits of particular modes of transport. Without such a comparison, however, it is impossible to assess how government funding in the transport market affects competition. Switzerland serves [...] various cost parameters for individual modes of transport, allowing direct comparisons between them. The statistics also consider how the modes of transport pay for the environmental costs they create, such

  • Auf nahezu allen Märkten gehen die Experten davon aus, dass sowohl der Rückgang der Transportmengen als auch der -preise beendet ist.
    Press Releases // 27.06.2016

    examines national and cross-border transport between Germany and Western and Eastern Europe with regard to the following transport sectors: road freight, rail freight, inland shipping, combined traffic [...] cautiously positive expectations in the next Transport Market Barometer survey. Experts predict a stagnation in transport volumes for inland shipping and rail freight. Estimations in regard to combined traffic [...] quarterly basis about the development of transport markets. Experts are asked to predict whether, in the coming six months, transport volumes and transport prices will (strongly/weakly) increase, (strong

  • Auf nahezu allen Märkten gehen die Experten davon aus, dass sowohl Transportmengen als auch -preise fallen.
    Press Releases // 14.03.2016

    examines national and cross-border transport between Germany and Western and Eastern Europe with regard to the following transport sectors: road freight, rail freight, inland shipping, combined traffic [...] in transport markets over the coming six-month period are unequivocal for both transport volumes and prices. Experts partially expect to see significant falls. This is the case for inland freight markets [...] markets, road, rail and shipping freight, as well as for air and sea freight. These are the findings of the Prognos/ZEW Transport Market Barometer (TransportmarktBarometer) for the first quarter of 2016.

  • Press Releases // 10.12.2015

    examines national and cross-border transport between Germany and Western and Eastern Europe with regard to the following transport sectors: road freight, rail freight, inland shipping, combined traffic [...] only affect road freight and courier, express and package (CEP) services in Germany, but also rail freight as well as combined traffic and inland shipping. However, expected transport volumes over the [...] volume expectations. The sentiment indicator for transport volumes is tending toward an all-time low for all sea freight markets. Expectations of growing transport volumes have taken some serious hits. While

  • Publications // 05.03.2008

    of external costs or the increase of rail speed in freight transport are quoted. In this article the potential to reduce CO2 emissions by implementing these measures will be quantified by using a discrete [...] Shifting freight volume from the road to more environmental friendly modes is one of the core objectives of the European Union. In the white paper of the Commission measures like the internalisation of

  • Publications // 03.09.2008

    Germany the transport sector is the only sector with increasing CO2 emissions (in the EU by about 32 % and in Germany by about 1 % since 1990). Especially in road freight and air transport a further strong [...] strong increase is forecasted. In the transport sector this might be impeded by avoiding transport (accepting a lower economic growth), shifting modes or in optimizing logistics. Especially the second is [...] adequate solution to meet the increasing demand for transportation and reducing CO2 emissions simulatneously. It is often stated, that combined transport (mainly truck-train-truck) might be a very CO2 efficient

  • Publications // 19.11.2010

    We investigate consumer welfare in transalpine freight transport using micro-data on individual route choice, tackling two core questions. First, to what extent does the way we model unobserved heterogeneity [...] structural parameters, we use a large scale individual choice data set from the 2004 Cross-Alpine Freight Transport survey. We exploit exogenous variation in travel cost and time arising from the fixed geographic [...] For example, the value of alternatives may depend on the weight or type of commodity a truck is transporting. These are examples for observable heterogeneity which are easily controlled for. However, the

  • Publications // 22.02.2010

    providing freight shippers with a new alpine path. We calibrate an equilibrium model where freight shippers choose a mode and alpine path to ship goods from a given origin to a given destination. Freight carriers [...] and leads to a modal shift on the West-East market. We find limited substitutability between freight transport products on a North-South transit axis. On the Ile-de-France-Lombardia market, the shippers' [...] The Alps have long posed challenges to European transport infrastructure planners. Overcoming this immense bottleneck is only possible via arduous travels across high-altitude Alpine passes or through

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