Transport infrastructure: How to get it right?

Managing infrastructure strategy in the wake of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic will be challenging. How can the government get it right?

Marta Santamaria takes lessons from the division of Germany in 1945. Original transport infrastructure plans made in the 1930s had taken into account the whole country. The West German government had to alter these plans and reallocate funds in order to create an infrastructure that would work within new geographical boundaries.

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Marta Santamaria (2020), Reshaping infrastructure: Evidence from the division of Germany, CAGE working paper (no.456)

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