Transport economics

Transport economics or transport economics is a branch of economics or the traffic sciences, with the economic conditions in connection with the relocation of goods, people, and messages in the transport market and in the transport sector is concerned (eg, supply and demand ( traffic need ) of mobility services, competition, etc.). Fields of work are, inter alia, the economic analysis of transport ( often referred to as Transport Economics ), the commercial treatment of individual industries or companies of transport ( traffic management science or transport business administration ), the study of special areas within the transport industry, such as the communication Management ( CEP and telecommunications, the tourism industry (see Tourism Research ), the public transport, logistics and others) and interface areas, such as urban planning / regional planning / transport geography, transport planning, traffic statistics, Verkehrsökonometrie, transport policy.

The training for Verkehrswirtschaftler is typically done either as a depression in the area of ​​studies of civil engineering, mechanical engineering or spatial planning ( transport system reference ) or as a specialization of studies in economics. Training as part of the business are typically assigned to the transportation and remain at the enterprise level. An undergraduate degree in the transport industry is available at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences "Friedrich List" Dresden University of Technology and at the University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn.

An opportunity for further education especially for travel agents is the ' Certified Business Administration Department of Tourism ' at the special schools (or academies in Bavaria). This two-year full-time course of study in conjunction with the previous business education mirrors the Bachelor and this is in the European Framework of Reference assimilated.