Overview
- Agora Verkehrswende and Dezernat Zukunft estimate a public financing need of about €390 billion through 2030 for rail, federal roads, public transport and the automotive transition.
- The study allocates roughly €146 billion to rail, €38.2 billion to federal highways and more than €181 billion to public transport across federal, state and municipal levels.
- Slightly more than half of the total falls under federal responsibility, including federally owned infrastructure and support for the automotive industry’s transformation.
- The authors recommend a usage-based car toll and universal public transport contributions collected from beneficiaries such as residents and companies, potentially with regional differentiation.
- They argue that the federal budget, the special infrastructure and climate fund and the truck toll can cover near-term needs, with larger new revenues becoming more urgent after 2030.