ABSTRACT
The opening of the fixed links across the straits of the Great Belt and Oresund within the last six years has, both in Denmark and Sweden, been awaited with great expectations of radical changes in the traffic and transport patterns, regional development, changes in firms’ organisation, trading patterns etc. This chapter has been inspired by some of the results of the research project Infrastructures, transport and the environment – fixed links and the logistical map of Denmark. The aim of the project was to study what kind of influence these newly established fixed links have on selected types of firms and their organisation of logistics and transport. The research has been funded by the former Danish Transport Council and was carried out by a research team from FLUX – Centre for Transport Research, Roskilde University in Denmark1.
