The Felbertauern landslide of 2013: impact on transport networks, effects on regional economy and policy decisions by Clemens Pfurtscheller, Elisabetta Genovese SEEDS is an interuniversity research centre. It develops research and higher education projects in the fields of ecological and environmental economics, with a special focus on the role of policy and innovation. Main fields of action are environmental policy, economics of innovation, energy economics and policy, economic evaluation by stated preference techniques, waste management and policy, climate change and development. The SEEDS Working Paper Series are indexed in RePEc and Google Scholar. Papers can be downloaded free of charge from the following websites: http://www.sustainability-seeds.org/. Enquiries:
[email protected] SEEDS Working Paper 02/2018 January 2018 Clemens Pfurtscheller, Elisabetta Genovese The opinions expressed in this working paper do not necessarily reflect the position of SEEDS as a whole. The Felbertauern landslide of 2013: impact on transport networks, effects on regional economy and policy decisions Clemens Pfurtscheller* Elisabetta Genovese† Abstract The Felbertauern landslide of May 2013 caused the total destruction of approximately 100 meters of road including an avalanche gallery, generating traffic disruption and several direct and indirect impacts on the regional economy. The Felbertauern Road, an important traffic artery for the whole NUTS-3 region East-Tyrol (Austria), was totally blocked for several weeks. Shortly after the event, regional decision makers sought to estimate the regional-economic impacts of the road blockage, in order to determine whether reopening the road or building an alternative route would be more economically feasible. This economic analysis was carried out using scattered information two weeks after the incident.