Suchergebnisse

The European Union coordinates and co-finances supra-national transport infrastructure investments in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) which consist of road, rail, airport, and port infrastructure. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to quantify the direct and indirect economic growth effects of newly created TEN-T core corridor roads in Eastern European countries. Both the panel data and the spatial analyses show that regional GDP growth at the NUTS3 level is between 0.4 and 2.4 percentage points higher, if a region has direct access to a newly built road. The analyses with a spatial Durbin model (SDM), for which we use three differently specified spatial weight matrices, show that the new construction of a TEN-T core road also causes positive spillover effects on adjacent regions, as well as on regions that are connected by the same corridor section. The results thus indicate that the TEN-T policy, which aims to alleviate transport bottlenecks, can help to increase cohesion between central and peripheral regions and consequently to enhance regional welfare in Eastern Europe.

Abstract
The European Union is in the process of abolishing the bi-annual clock change. Against this backdrop, we analyze how daylight and twilight affect the sustainable transport mode of cycling, and find that better daylight conditions generally lead to higher levels of cycling. The extent of this effect depends on the type of traffic and the time of day. An all-year implementation of Daylight Saving Time would then lead to an increase in overall cycling levels of around 3.14 %–3.37 %, compared to an all-year Standard Time. This would imply an increase of around 1.27–1.36 billion cycled kilometers per year in Germany alone. Additionally, we provide monetary estimates for the external effects of such changes in cycling levels.