ROUTE INVESTMENTS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE NATIONAL TRANSPORT POLICY AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

This report refers to the economic impact of investments in the differing transport modes and suggests that with financial resources becoming scarcer, such investments should not lead to competition between modes but to transport policy targets within a national transport policy. These targets, related to present day conditions in the federal republic are stated to be: the maintenance and furtherance of the mobility of the inhabitant and of the economy; the maintenance of an appropriate transport structure for a steadily developing economy; the securing of the free choice of the means of transport in a controlled competitive system. The present national transport routes investment policy is reviewed, and information provided on the co-ordinated investment programme for the federal transport routes up to the year 1985 in respect of the German Federal Railway, federal trunk roads, federal waterways, air-traffic control and airports. The implementation (and continuing review) of planned investment strategy is discussed, and consideration given to the international aspects of the transport routes investment policy. /TRRL/