RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Danesi, Antonio
A1 Ongari, Davide
A1 Poliziani, Cristian
A1 Rupi, Federico
T1 Evolution of the Road and Rail Transport of Goods in European Countries before and after the Financial Crises
JF Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina
YR 2019
VO 21
IS 4
SP 3
OP 12
DO 10.26552/com.C.2019.4.3-12
UL https://komunikacie.uniza.sk/artkey/csl-201904-0001.php
AB 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.