Overcoming disparities in transport infrastructure in the reunited Germany between 1990 and 1999 Authors Hans-Friedrich Eckey Universität Gh Kassel, Fachbereich 07: Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Postfach 101380, 34109, Kassel Klaus Horn Universität Gh Kassel, Fachbereich 07: Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Postfach 101380, 34109, Kassel DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03182927 Keywords: Article Abstract The quality of transport infrastructure has a major impact on the economic development of regions. Where it is inadequate — as it was in the former GDR at the time of reunification — it can act as a factor stifling growth. For politics, the goal therefore was at that time — and still remains — to improve on the situation found. This article attempts to provide an appraisal of the success to date of attempts to bring about this improvement. As far as rail transport is concerned, counties in the “newLänder” (of the former East Germany) now on average have better connections to the network than counties in western Germany. However, disparities between urban and rural areas have increased considerably. By contrast, relatively little progress has been made so far in up-grading and adding to the road network. Downloads Download data is not yet available. References Ein hervorragender Überblick zu den vorliegenden ökonometrischen Untersuchungen findet sich bei Hofmann, Ulrich: Produktivitätseffekte der öffentlichen Infrastruktur. — Frankfurt a.M. 1996, insbes. S. 15 ff. Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) (Hrsg.): Immer noch Nachholbedarf bei der Verkehrsinfrastruktur in Ostdeutschland. In: Wochenbericht, 63. Jg. (1996) 50 v. 12.12.1996, S. 805–815 ifo-Institut Immer noch Nachholbedarf bei der Verkehrsinfrastruktur in Ostdeutschland. In: Wochenbericht, 63. Jg. (1996) 50 v. 12.12.1996, (Hrsg.): Investitionsaktivitäten westdeutscher Unternehmen in der ehemaligen DDR. In: ifo-Schnelldienst (1991) 12, S. 6 ff. dass. Immer noch Nachholbedarfbei der Verkehrsinfrastruktur in Ostdeutschland. In: Wochenbericht, 63. Jg. (1996) 50 v. 12.12.1996, (Hrsg.): Infrastrukturengpässe in den neuen Bundesländern. In: ifo-Schnelldienst (1991) 6, S. 3 ff. Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) (Hrsg.): Immer noch Nachholbedarf..., a.a.O. [siehe Anm. (4)], Immer noch Nachholbedarf bei der Verkehrsinfrastruktur in Ostdeutschland. In: Wochenbericht, 63. Jg. (1996) 50 v. 12.12.1996, S. 805–815 Vgl. Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau- und Wohnungswesen (Hrsg.): Investitionsprogramm für den Ausbau der Bundesschienenwege, Bundesfernstraßen und Bundeswasserstraßen in den Jahren 1999 bis 2002. — Berlin 1999 o.V.: Investitionsprogramm Bundesverkehrswege 1999–2002. In: Internationales Verkehrswesen, 52. Jg. (2000) Jan.: Febr., S. 7 Die Menge der Stadt- und Landkreise in Deutschland beträgt 440. Downloads PDF (German) Published 2000-09-30 Issue Vol. 58 No. 5 (2000) Section Research Article License Copyright (c) 2000 RuR Editors This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Articles in Raumforschung und Raumordnung – Spatial Research and Planning are published under a Creative Commons license. From Vol. 79 No. 2 (2021), the license applied is CC BY 4.0. From Vol. 77 No. 1 to Vol. 79 No.1, articles were published under a CC BY-SA license. Earlier volumes have been re-published by oekom 2022 under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC BY 4.0. How to Cite 1.Eckey H-F, Horn K. Overcoming disparities in transport infrastructure in the reunited Germany between 1990 and 1999. RuR [Internet]. 2000 Sep. 30 [cited 2024 Dec. 3];58(5):373–381. Available from: https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/1168 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Share
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