Evolution of the Road and Rail Transport of Goods in European Countries before and after the Financial Crises
Evolution of the Road and Rail Transport of Goods in European Countries before and after the Financial Crises
Author(s): Antonio Danesi, Davide Ongari, Cristian Poliziani, Federico RupiSubject(s): National Economy, Supranational / Global Economy, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Transport / Logistics
Published by: Žilinská univerzita v Žilině
Keywords: freight transport; GDP; infrastructures; oil price; road and rail transport networks;
Summary/Abstract: The main goal of this paper is to analyse recent trends in freight transport volumes as well as their relation to socio-economic and infrastructural variables, in the case of the following major European countries: France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom. This analysis refers to the period 2005-2016, so that years affected by the global economic crisis, which shows its peak in 2009, are taken into account. This research demonstrated that not all the countries under study show a strong relation between freight traffic and GDP as it could have been expected based on well consolidated experiences and studies. Moreover, other relations are investigated, with mixed results, between the freight traffic volumes and the extension of the rail and road networks as well as oil price data.
Journal: Komunikácie - vedecké listy Žilinskej univerzity v Žiline
- Issue Year: 21/2019
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 3-12
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English