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Assessing the economic and tax-revenue effects of the construction of the S 8 Marchfeld Expressway in austria
Wolfgang Schwarzbauer Head of the Applied Research Department, Department of Economics and Finance, Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria
Thomas Grünstäudl Team Leader Planning Department, ASFINAG BMG, Austria. Member of PIARC TC 1.4
This article presents a novel approach to assessing the economic and tax-revenue effects of the construction and operation of new or improved traffic infrastructure and applies this approach to a very important planned road infrastructure project by ASFINAG, the S 8 Marchfeld expressway, linking the two capitals Vienna (Austria) and Bratislava (Slovakia).