Stable the level of the investments in infrastructures of transport in nations OCSE



The International Transport Forum (ITF) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Develop (OCSE) has introduced today the annual report on the investments in street, railway, fluvial, harbour and airport infrastructures, let alone on the expenses for maintenance of infrastructures, that it is reported to the period between 1995 and 2011 in which - the document finds - the quota such investments in Countries OCSE has remained about pairs to 1% about of the Gross Domestic Product one.

In particular, the quota the GDP destined to the investments in infrastructures has remained relatively constant in the countries of western Europe (0,8-0,9%), with little exceptions mainly in Greece, Spain, Switzerland and Portugal that in the period show quotas Gross Domestic Product more meaningfully elevated that they touch the 1,6-2,0% (from 2007, however, Greece and Portugal have recorded investments down to about 1.0% of the GDP).

Also the data for the America North show a constant quota GDP (0.6%), beneath of average OCSE.

The quota the investments in infrastructures in the nations of central Europe and oriental, than until 2002 had remained to about 1,0% of the GDP, has grown remarkablly reaching 2.0% in 2009, the recorded percentage more never elevated from these Countries. In the 2010 such quota it is come down to 1.7% probably because of the economic crisis. The ITF has announced that the data for 2011 still show an increase, with a quota investments that has reached 1.8%.

According to the International Transport Forum, the fact that in many nations the Gross Domestic Product quota dedicated to transport infrastructures has remained constant suggests that the levels of investments can be influenced from different factors regarding the real necessities of investment. "The level of expense for the transport - the representative of the ITF Jari Kauppila has explained - can be influenced from the levels of historical budgets, the procedures of allocation of the institutional resources or from constraints budgetary, considering also of the requirements of other fields of the economy". The ITF has found that, instead, the increase of the levels of the investments in the economies in transition reflects the efforts in order to satisfy the increasing requirements, those in particular relative ones to the street net.