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No. 2008/15 | 01 Jul 2008 |
The Airport Industry in a Competitive Environment
The paper provides an overview of UK airports from the perspective of a business enterprise. Its object is to show, through the medium of the UK industry, that effective competition between airports is possible and that a competitive industry can be... |
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No. 2007/10 | 01 Dec 2007 |
The Broader Benefits of Transportation Infrastructure
Assessments of the economic benefits of transportation infrastructure investments are critical to good policy decisions. At present, most such assessments are based of two types of studies: micro-scale studies in the form of cost-benefit analysis... |
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No. 2009/30 | 01 Dec 2009 |
The Contribution of Strategic Environmental Assessment to Transport Policy Governance
At the turn of the new millennium, therefore, the initial work on SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment) and transport are eliciting work to evaluate the interest, specifics and feasibility of applying this new tool when formulating transport... |
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No. 2008/09 | 01 Apr 2008 |
The Costs and Effectiveness of Police to Reduce Vehicle Emissions
Transport sector policies already contribute to moderating greenhouse gas emissions from road vehicles and are increasingly designed to contribute to overall societal targets to mitigate climate change. The Round Table investigated the effectiveness... |
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No. 2010/09 | 01 Jan 2010 |
The Demand for and the Supply of Fuel Efficiency in Models of Industrial Organisation
This report organizes and discusses empirical estimates of the effects of fuel prices and fuel emission standards on consumer and firm behaviour. I touch only briefly on model-free estimates. The focus is on results based on explicit models, taken... |
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No. 2008/02 | 01 Jan 2008 |
The Design of Effective Regulations of Transport
This paper will trace the development of modern regulation of emissions, both local and global, from motor vehicles. To illuminate the principal themes of this story the focus will be on the experiences of the United States and Europe. Among those... |
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No. 2008/16 | 01 Aug 2008 |
The Economic Effects of High Speed Rail Investment
The allocation of traffic between different transport modes follows transport user decisions which depend on the generalized cost of travel in the available alternatives. High Speed Rail (HSR) investment is a government decision with significant... |
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No. 2009/29 | 01 Dec 2009 |
The Economics of CO2 Emissions Trading for Aviation
There has been a growing interest in the environmental impact of aviation, both in terms of noise and aircraft engine emissions. Discussions have included both mitigation measures and methods of internalisation of these environmental costs also... |
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No. 2007/06 | 01 Dec 2007 |
The Environmental Certification of Biofuels
Bioenergy, including biofuels, could become a substantial tool for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, locally and globally, possibly providing a large fraction of global primary energy supply by 2020. Exactly how large that share will be is not... |
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No. 2010/11 | 01 Mar 2010 |
The Future of Interurban Passenger Transport
The Symposium brought together leading transport researchers from around the world to explore a range of issues under the general theme of “the future for interurban passenger transport”. A first set of papers investigates what drives demand for... |
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No. 2008/18 | 01 Sept 2008 |
The Impact of Climate Change Policy on Competition in the Air Transport Industry
This paper examines how climate change policy can impact on competition, prices and profitability in the air transport industry. It begins with an outline of the climate change policies that have been suggested, and it gives particular attention to... |
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No. 2010/08 | 01 Feb 2010 |
The Impact of Economic Instruments on the Auto Industry and the Consequences of Fragmenting Markets
This paper will focus on taxation issues addressing CO2 emissions in the European Union. When observing the different systems in place, a very broad diversity appears even with a cursory first glance. Actually, the diversity of taxation schemes among... |
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No. 2008/08 | 01 Feb 2008 |
The Impact of Hinterland Access Conditions on Rivalry between Ports
This paper examines the interaction between hinterland access conditions and port competition. Competition between ports is treated as competition between alternate intermodal transportation chains, while the hinterland access conditions are... |
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No. 2009/26 | 01 Dec 2009 |
The Informed and Oriented Transport System User
The German Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs has set up a vision which shall improve the situation of the transport system user (in Germany). In order to make use of all resources an intensive co-ordination with the Ministry of... |
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No. 2007/05 | 01 Dec 2007 |
The Performance of Brazilian Biofuels
The increase in the oil price and the worsening of climate change are fostering biofuels programs around the world. Brazil has a long tradition in biofuels. The country is a large-scale producer of ethanol since the 1970s. In 2006, ethanol was... |
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No. 2010/17 | 01 Nov 2010 |
The Practice of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Transport: The Case of France
The practice of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has a long tradition in France, dating back to Dupuit (1849), but is still a topical subject. This practice is in fact the result of the combination of economic theory and decision processes regarding... |
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No. 2010/18 | 01 Nov 2010 |
The Practice of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Transport Sector: A Mexican Perspective
Mexico´s public investment process is strengthened by an institutional framework that ensures that projects with a high social return are given preference. The Federal Law of Budget and Financial Responsibility establishes as prerequisite for federal... |
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No. 2009/14 | 01 Dec 2009 |
The Prospects for Inter-Urban Travel Demand
The great difference between our journeys and activity schedules and those of our forebears lies in the much longer distances we travel. By road, and even more so by rail and air, nowadays we can cover hundreds or even thousands of miles in a few... |
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No. 2008/10 | 01 Mar 2008 |
The Relationship between Seaports and the Inter-Modal Hinterland in Light of Global Supply Chains
The seaport-hinterland interaction plays an increasingly important role in shaping supply chain solutions of shippers and logistics service providers. Scarcity concerns combined with concerns over the reliability of transport solutions have led... |
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No. 2008/14 | 01 Aug 2008 |
The Role of Accessibility in Passengers' Choice of Airports
1.INTRODUCTION; 1.1. Growth of regional airports; 1.2. Implications for policy makers; 1.3. Objective of this paper; 2. DEFINITIONS OF ACCESSIBILITY 3. ACCESS MODE CHOICE 3.1. Observed access mode shares 3.2. Factors influencing access mode choice... |
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The Airport Industry in a Competitive Environment
David Starkie
01 Jul 2008
The paper provides an overview of UK airports from the perspective of a business enterprise. Its object is to show, through the medium of the UK industry, that effective competition between airports is possible and that a competitive industry can be...
The Broader Benefits of Transportation Infrastructure
Ian Sue Wing, William P. Anderson and T. R. Lakshmanan
01 Dec 2007
Assessments of the economic benefits of transportation infrastructure investments are critical to good policy decisions. At present, most such assessments are based of two types of studies: micro-scale studies in the form of cost-benefit analysis...
The Contribution of Strategic Environmental Assessment to Transport Policy Governance
Rodrigo Jiliberto Herrera
01 Dec 2009
At the turn of the new millennium, therefore, the initial work on SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment) and transport are eliciting work to evaluate the interest, specifics and feasibility of applying this new tool when formulating transport...
The Costs and Effectiveness of Police to Reduce Vehicle Emissions
International Transport Forum
01 Apr 2008
Transport sector policies already contribute to moderating greenhouse gas emissions from road vehicles and are increasingly designed to contribute to overall societal targets to mitigate climate change. The Round Table investigated the effectiveness...
The Demand for and the Supply of Fuel Efficiency in Models of Industrial Organisation
Johannes van Biesebroeck
01 Jan 2010
This report organizes and discusses empirical estimates of the effects of fuel prices and fuel emission standards on consumer and firm behaviour. I touch only briefly on model-free estimates. The focus is on results based on explicit models, taken...
The Design of Effective Regulations of Transport
Winston Harrington
01 Jan 2008
This paper will trace the development of modern regulation of emissions, both local and global, from motor vehicles. To illuminate the principal themes of this story the focus will be on the experiences of the United States and Europe. Among those...
The Economic Effects of High Speed Rail Investment
Ginés de Rus
01 Aug 2008
The allocation of traffic between different transport modes follows transport user decisions which depend on the generalized cost of travel in the available alternatives. High Speed Rail (HSR) investment is a government decision with significant...
The Economics of CO2 Emissions Trading for Aviation
Peter Morrell
01 Dec 2009
There has been a growing interest in the environmental impact of aviation, both in terms of noise and aircraft engine emissions. Discussions have included both mitigation measures and methods of internalisation of these environmental costs also...
The Environmental Certification of Biofuels
International Transport Forum
01 Dec 2007
Bioenergy, including biofuels, could become a substantial tool for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, locally and globally, possibly providing a large fraction of global primary energy supply by 2020. Exactly how large that share will be is not...
The Future of Interurban Passenger Transport
International Transport Forum
01 Mar 2010
The Symposium brought together leading transport researchers from around the world to explore a range of issues under the general theme of “the future for interurban passenger transport”. A first set of papers investigates what drives demand for...
The Impact of Climate Change Policy on Competition in the Air Transport Industry
Peter Forsyth
01 Sept 2008
This paper examines how climate change policy can impact on competition, prices and profitability in the air transport industry. It begins with an outline of the climate change policies that have been suggested, and it gives particular attention to...
The Impact of Economic Instruments on the Auto Industry and the Consequences of Fragmenting Markets
Luc Bastard
01 Feb 2010
This paper will focus on taxation issues addressing CO2 emissions in the European Union. When observing the different systems in place, a very broad diversity appears even with a cursory first glance. Actually, the diversity of taxation schemes among...
The Impact of Hinterland Access Conditions on Rivalry between Ports
Anming Zhang
01 Feb 2008
This paper examines the interaction between hinterland access conditions and port competition. Competition between ports is treated as competition between alternate intermodal transportation chains, while the hinterland access conditions are...
The Informed and Oriented Transport System User
Peter Zimmermann
01 Dec 2009
The German Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs has set up a vision which shall improve the situation of the transport system user (in Germany). In order to make use of all resources an intensive co-ordination with the Ministry of...
The Performance of Brazilian Biofuels
Edmar Fagundes de Almeida, Jose Vitor Bomtempo and Carla Maria de Souza e Silva
01 Dec 2007
The increase in the oil price and the worsening of climate change are fostering biofuels programs around the world. Brazil has a long tradition in biofuels. The country is a large-scale producer of ethanol since the 1970s. In 2006, ethanol was...
The Practice of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Transport: The Case of France
Emile Quinet
01 Nov 2010
The practice of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has a long tradition in France, dating back to Dupuit (1849), but is still a topical subject. This practice is in fact the result of the combination of economic theory and decision processes regarding...
The Practice of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Transport Sector: A Mexican Perspective
Vladimir Ramirez Soberanis
01 Nov 2010
Mexico´s public investment process is strengthened by an institutional framework that ensures that projects with a high social return are given preference. The Federal Law of Budget and Financial Responsibility establishes as prerequisite for federal...
The Prospects for Inter-Urban Travel Demand
Yves Crozet
01 Dec 2009
The great difference between our journeys and activity schedules and those of our forebears lies in the much longer distances we travel. By road, and even more so by rail and air, nowadays we can cover hundreds or even thousands of miles in a few...
The Relationship between Seaports and the Inter-Modal Hinterland in Light of Global Supply Chains
Theo Notteboom
01 Mar 2008
The seaport-hinterland interaction plays an increasingly important role in shaping supply chain solutions of shippers and logistics service providers. Scarcity concerns combined with concerns over the reliability of transport solutions have led...
The Role of Accessibility in Passengers' Choice of Airports
Marco Kouwenhoven
01 Aug 2008
1.INTRODUCTION; 1.1. Growth of regional airports; 1.2. Implications for policy makers; 1.3. Objective of this paper; 2. DEFINITIONS OF ACCESSIBILITY 3. ACCESS MODE CHOICE 3.1. Observed access mode shares 3.2. Factors influencing access mode choice...