Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 1997-06-23
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9282105636
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report describes current thinking on anticipated trends in logistics systems.
Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 1995-12-22
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9282105555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To mark its hundredth Round Table on transport economics, the ECMT decided to publish a special issue. Fifty European experts were asked to submit papers examining not only the major issues addressed by transport economics in the past, but also those that are likely to emerge in the future.
Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Economic Research Centre
Publisher: European Conference of Ministers of Transport ; [Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Center
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Transport Research Centre
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While deregulation and privatization in the transport sector have led to increases in productivity in general, not all reform hopes have materialized. In particular, the reform of the provision of infrastructure services has not caused the expected mobilization of private resources, and concession relations have been less stable and less efficiency-enhancing than expected. In view of current discussions of reform results, the Round Table focused on the following issues: Where are the limits for deregulation? The discussion identified the conditions under which competition and potential competition can be expected to work. More care has to be applied to single out the transport sub-sectors where these conditions hold. Which are the crucial factors that necessitate regulation? Many parts of the transport sector are fraught with indivisibilities, network economies, sector specific assets or lack of resale markets for investment goods. Where these factors play an important role, regulation might improve the efficiency of the transport system. What is the role of the transaction costs of regulation? The neglect of (surrogate) market transaction costs, in particular in the case of vertical disintegration, has led to lower than expected benefits from the reforms. What is the cost of regulation? Regulatory policies have to take account of the information asymmetries between the actors involved. Monitoring and control costs have often prohibited the depoliticizing of regulatory processes. The Round Tale discussed to what extent a rule-bound, performance-based regulation could contain the friction resulting from discretionary regulatory powers.
Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These Round Tables examine the balance between supply and demand in the area of goods transport by road and goods transport by inland waterway transport.
Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Economic Research Centre
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Do roads induce mobility? This might sound like a strange question, yet it only stands to reason that building new roads - or other infrastructure - may actually encourage people to use the new additional capacity to travel more. Induced mobility is a hotly debated issue, but the experts are no longer in any doubt that it is a very real phenomenon. However, measuring it is another matter, since we do not have sufficient data or experience in this area. This Round Table presents the data that is available to date on infrastructure-induced mobility. From the introductory reports and discussions, it is clear that much progress has been made in the last few years. As recently as ten years ago, many experts would have disputed the very existence of the induced mobility phenomenon. Today a consensus is emerging: Round Table 105 gives the full report.
Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Economic Research Centre
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Economic Research Centre
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Both personal mobility and freight traffic are increasing in our societies. At the same time, the quality of our lives and our environment now becoming matters of vital concern is impaired in many ways by transport related disamenities: noise, pollution, vibration and visual intrusion. Such disamenities can, however, be curbed if due account is taken of them in transport infrastructure planning for example, by proposing alternative routes, noise screens, conservation of the archaeological heritage and nature (flora and fauna). Round Table 79 examines the environmental studies carried out when infrastructures are being built and shows how the findings can be incorporated in the decision-making process, for example, by final choice of route, measuring degrees of disamenity, threshold values, and the assignment of a monetary value to effects.