Overall we may conclude that the costs of direct land use per passenger kilometre of
infrastructure are much lower outside than inside the built-up area. The reason is the higher
land price inside the built-up area in combination with the more intensive use of infrastructure
outside urban areas. Costs of direct land use appear to be considerable compared to the
construction costs calculated by CE (1999). Regarding passenger transport, land acquisition
costs for motor bikes and mopeds are about 25 percent higher than the construction costs. For
automobiles and touring cars and city busses these factors are approximately 0.8 and 0.6
respectively. Furthermore, although acquisition costs of land are highest for trains in absolute
terms, they amount to only a factor 0.3 of the construction costs.
Regarding goods transport the most striking result concerns the large costs of land acquisition
for inland shipping, both in absolute terms and relative to the construction costs
(approximately a factor 2.7). For delivery vans and solo trucks < 12 ton these factors are
approximately 0.7 and 0.6, while for the solo truck > 12 ton and the combination truck they
are around 0.3. Again, land acquisition costs of trains are large in absolute terms, but fairly
low compared with the construction costs – around factor 0.2