Product Description: While intercity passenger transport counts for about 2% of the total passenger transport volume the share of the total passenger kilometers traveled is estimated more than one third. In many countries the major part of intercity transport is performed by car and air and as a result, the contribution to the carbon footprint is substantially higher than the share of overall passenger transport performance...read more

Product Description: This last volume of the Karlsruhe Papers on Economic Policy Research, edited by Rolf Funck and Werner Rothengatter, focuses on the interactions between man, environment, space and time, following the holistic research approach of Walter Isard which initiated a re-orientation of regional science...read more

Product Description: Transportation accounts for roughly a third of greenhouse gas emissions, and it remains a growing sector. This book offers practical suggestions in its analysis of the challenge transport presents today, as well as examining its role in future climate policy.

Product Description: This volume raises many challenging and controversial issues surrounding motorway procurement and finance in Europe. A somewhat surprising outcome is that a general appraisal bias can be identified in the following sense: Experts from countries which have introduced concession schemes for managing and financing of their motorways are very critical of these schemes, stressing their shortcomings and caveats...read more

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