The Federal Transport Plan : Germany

The first transport plan for the whole of Germany, adopted in June 1993, will cost approximately DM 453 billion. It provides for maintenance, modernization, renewal and expansion of the rail, road and waterway networks up to the year 2012. About 54 percent of this investment is earmarked for rail and waterway networks, the more “environmentally friendly” transport systems; for the first time, the road network has received the smaller share of funding. In improving the federal highways network, some 1,000 bypasses will be built to relieve traffic congestion in cities and towns. To expedite matters, new statutory regulations have been enacted which simplify and thus considerably shorten planning procedures throughout the country.