CORRIDOR REPORT: STUDY OF TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS IN SELECTED CORRIDORS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. PART I AND II

KORRIDORBERICHT: UNTERSUCHUNG UEBER VERKEHRSWEGEIN- VESTITIONEN IN AUSGEWAEHLTEN KORRIDOREN DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND

A special research team studied the efficiency of transportation investments in three so-called transportation corridors. The projects concerned the corridors: Cologne- Frankfurt, Mannheim - Stuttgart, Hannover- Gemunden (-Wurzburg). The projects investigated are indirectly influencing transportation by air and by pipeline. This research undertakes for the first time a study of the cost and benefits of investments in different types of transportation, versus only one type of transportation. The methods for evaluating the investments are described. Traffic analyses and traffic projections for 1985 are given for goods movement, automobile and rail. The competitive relationships between different types of transportation in the corridors are analyzed. Transportation on the Rhine river is especially studied and projections are made. The effect of a super rail system on the corridors is considered. Cost analyses are given for construction, maintenance and repair of the planned investment programs. Benefit analyses of the programs are made. Finally the results of the research project are described. Cost-benefit-relations are given. Monetary and non-monetary (environmental, urban planning etc.) components are ranked separately and then both types of components are considered for the final ranking of the transportation investments according to priority. 42 tables in the report and 71 in the appendix illustrate the study.

• Corporate Authors:

  Ministry of Transport, West Germany

  Bundesminister fuer Verkehr (BMV)
  Bonn,   Germany 
• Publication Date: 1974-6

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 198 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Competition; Economics; Foreign; Freight traffic; Investments; Modal split; Multimodal transportation; Policy; Traffic forecasting; Transportation; Transportation corridors; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Water transportation
• Identifier Terms: Deutsche Bahn; Deutsche Bundesbahn
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Government policies; National transportation policies
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Policy; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00072130
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Systems Center
• Report/Paper Numbers: No. 47
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 5 1975 12:00AM