University of Cologne
Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences

 Institute and Seminar for Transport Economics







Prof. Dr. Herbert Baum





Room first floor left
Phone +49 221 470 - 2312
Fax +49 221 470 - 5183
Email h.baum@uni-koeln.de



Interests
  • market and pricing theory
  • industrial economics
  • competition theory and policy
  • regulation theory
  • transport economics
    • competition and market organisation
    • infrastructure policy
    • traffic finance
    • profitability analysis and cost benefit analysis
    • assessment of new technologies
    • traffic and overall economy
Courses
  • economics
    • main features of microeconomics
    • managerial economics
    • industry economics and competition
  • transport economics
    • organisation of the traffic sector
    • traffic infrastructure policy
    • advanced seminar transport economics
    • theory and politics of the transport economics
    • colloquium for graduands and postgraduants
    • planning methods in transport economics
    • Global Competition in the Aviation Industry (CEMS School Specific Course) (with W. Delfmann)
Publisher of
  • "Zeitschrift für Verkehrswissenschaft", which is published by Verkehrs-Verlag Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • "Forschungsberichte des Instituts für Verkehrswissenschaft an der Universität zu Köln"
Academical Career

Promotion to Dr. rer pol. at the University of Cologne 1972
Habitilation in Political Economy at the University of Cologne 1978
Professor for Economics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg 1980 - 1982
Professor for Economics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum 1982 - 1985
Professor for Economics at the University of Essen 1985 - 1990
Professor for Economics at the University of Cologne and Direktor of the Institute for Transport Economics  since 1990

Collaboration in boards
  • member of the advisory concil of the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development since 1990, head of the advisory concil in the period 2007/2008
  • member of the tast force Integrierte Verkehrspolitik of  the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development from 1999 till 2002
  • member of the enquete-commission Zukunft der Mobilität (future of the mobility) of the North Rhine-Westphalia Parliament from 1997 till 2002
  • member of the advisory commission for questions of principle of the regional and urban transport planning of the association for research for roads and traffic system