ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on 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 the newly established fixed links across the Great Belt and resund have on selected types of firms and their organization of logistics and transport. The research has been funded by the former Danish Transport Council and was carried out by a research team from the Centre for Transport Research, at Roskilde University in Denmark. The chapter discusses the most significant impacts of the new fixed links that can already be identified among transport firms. It presents an analytical approach that served as the starting point for the present study and which offers an understanding of the underlying driving forces in postmodern society that ten project Infrastructures to affect more specific parameters related to transport and logistics.