Description:
This discussion paper deals with the reconstruction of transportation and telecommunication infrastructures in Eastern Germany and especially Saxony after the 1990 unification. Following a representation of investment measures and their influence on capital stocks in transportation infrastructure the author discusses the infrastructural situation of Saxony s three main agglomerations Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz and their location in European economic space. Concluding the paper Saxony s integration into the system of Transeuropean Networks and their planned extensions into Central and Eastern Europe is briefly examined.