Transport Infrastructure in Time, Scope and Scale

Björn Hasselgren is a guest researcher in the Economic History Department of Uppsala University, Sweden and has a PhD in planning and decision analysis from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has extensive experience from senior positions in the transport infrastructure sector and the Sveriges Riksbank.

• Introduction.- 1. Government ownership of roads and railroads – why? 2. Theoretical background.- 3. Economic Theory and Transport Infrastructure.- 4. Planning and Coordination of Transport Infrastructure.- 5. Sweden’s Transport Infrastructure History—Coevolutionand Conflict.- 6. Concluding Remarks.