The Environmental Economic Department of the Hungarian University of Economics was the coordinator of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) research program, which addressed Hungary’s strategic environmental policy duties in response to the challenge of millennium, mainly in the light of joining the European Union.

MAKK completed a research project for the Ministry of Environment and the Clean Air Action Group on combined transport facilities in Hungary. The primary goal of the study was the exploration of the economic, infrastructural and legal factors which influence the operation and development of this mode of transport.

The study surveys the national and domestic tendencies of the transportation sector, and their relations to environmental protection.