Ziele und Vorgaben der österreichischen Verkehrspolitik in den Koalitionsabkommen der Bundesregierung - ein Zeitvergleich 1945-2007

Transport policies have changed over the past sixty-three years since the reconstruction of the Austrian Republic in 1945. This thesis analyses transport and associated concerns in all government declarations and agreements as well as summarisations of several concepts for transport policy. Furthermore, this paper tries to emphasise differences in political intentions embedded in a changing political and economic environment. Thereby, particular attention is turned to funding aspects of constructing and maintaining infrastructure. Whereas reconstruction and guaranteeing transport services in all regions dominated political objectives in the early years, balancing budgets and preserving habitat and anthroposphere have become more important since the late eighties. European transport policy has also increased its influence as Austria finally joined the European Union in 1995. Since then, the national political activity has to deal with the loss of autonomy versus transit purposes. (author' abstract)