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No. 2010/06 | 01 Jan 2010 |
Why the New Market for New Passenger Cars Generally Undervalues Fuel Economy
Passenger vehicles are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and prodigious consumers of petroleum, making their fuel economy an important focus of energy policy. Whether or not the market for fuel economy functions efficiently has important... |
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No. 2009/16 | 01 Dec 2009 |
When to Invest in High-Speed Rail Links and Networks?
Definitions of high speed rail (HSR) differ, but a common one is rail systems which are designed for a maximum speed in excess of 250 kph (UIC, 2008). These speeds invariably involve the construction of new track, although trains used on them can... |
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No. 2009/24 | 01 Dec 2009 |
When Should We Provide Separate Auto and Truck Roadways?
The concept of the general purpose (GP) lane has dominated modern highway thinking and practice in OECD countries, especially for limited-access highways such as inter-city motorways and urban expressways, whether tolled or non-tolled. This paper... |
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No. 2010/14 | 01 Nov 2010 |
What Sustainable Road Transport Future?
A brief review of long run projections of demand for road transport suggests that problems related to road network congestion and greenhouse gas emissions are likely to become more pressing than they are now. Hence we review, from a macroscopic... |
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No. 2010/19 | 01 Nov 2010 |
Transport Regulation from Theory to Practice
Economic regulation is a controversial issue, especially in the transport sector. This paper analyses a number of general transport and mode-specific issues that can provide indications for setting up regulatory bodies and orienting their strategies.... |
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No. 2010/15 | 01 Nov 2010 |
Transport Outlook 2010
This paper provides evidence on and discussion of recent developments in global transport markets and analyzes what policies look most promising for stabilizing CO2- emissions from light-duty vehicles. In the aftermath of the economic crisis,... |
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No. 2009/12 | 01 Jun 2009 |
Transport Outlook 2009 (preliminary version)
This second ITF Transport Outlook continues building towards a full-fledged Transport Outlook, building upon the first Outlook (JTRC, 20081). The 2008 Outlook investigated the relation between expected GDP evolution and the demand for road transport,... |
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No. 2008/13 | 01 May 2008 |
Transport Outlook 2008
This short outlook is designed to test the potential for key policy instruments for mitigating emissions from road transport, and particularly from light duty vehicles, the largest source of CO2 emissions from transport (see Figure 1 and Table 1). It... |
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No. 2007/12 | 01 Dec 2007 |
Transport Infrastructure Inside and Across Urban Regions
Infrastructure investment represents large capital values, whereas the benefits and other consequences are extended into the future. This makes methods to assess investment plans an important issue. This paper develops a framework in which... |
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No. 2008/23 | 01 Nov 2008 |
Toward Risk-Based Aviation Security Policy
The well-coordinated terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 presented the world with a new aviation security threat: the capture of aircraft in flight to be used as human-guided missiles. The two previous threats—hijacking an aircraft for ransom and... |
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No. 2007/08 | 01 Dec 2007 |
The Wider Economic Benefits of Transportation
Economic contributions of investments of transport infrastructure are typically assessed from a microeconomic perspective, which tries to identify the link between specific transport infrastructure improvements and the productivity of specific... |
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No. 2008/06 | 01 Jan 2008 |
The Wider Economic Benefit of Transport
This paper summarizes and organizes presentations and discussions of the Round Table on Macro-, meso and micro infrastructure planning and assessment tools, that took place at Boston University, on 25 and 26 October 2007. The goal of the meeting was... |
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No. 2010/01 | 01 Jan 2010 |
The Singapore Experience
Singapore is an island-state with a land area of about 710 square km, measuring 42 km across and 23 km from north to south. Densely populated with more than 4.8 million people, its transport needs are served by an infrastructure of 147 km of MRT/LRT... |
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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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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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Why the New Market for New Passenger Cars Generally Undervalues Fuel Economy
David L. Greene
01 Jan 2010
Passenger vehicles are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and prodigious consumers of petroleum, making their fuel economy an important focus of energy policy. Whether or not the market for fuel economy functions efficiently has important...
When to Invest in High-Speed Rail Links and Networks?
Chris Nash
01 Dec 2009
Definitions of high speed rail (HSR) differ, but a common one is rail systems which are designed for a maximum speed in excess of 250 kph (UIC, 2008). These speeds invariably involve the construction of new track, although trains used on them can...
When Should We Provide Separate Auto and Truck Roadways?
Robert W. Poole, Jr.
01 Dec 2009
The concept of the general purpose (GP) lane has dominated modern highway thinking and practice in OECD countries, especially for limited-access highways such as inter-city motorways and urban expressways, whether tolled or non-tolled. This paper...
What Sustainable Road Transport Future?
Stef Proost and Kurt van Dender
01 Nov 2010
A brief review of long run projections of demand for road transport suggests that problems related to road network congestion and greenhouse gas emissions are likely to become more pressing than they are now. Hence we review, from a macroscopic...
Transport Regulation from Theory to Practice
Marco Ponti
01 Nov 2010
Economic regulation is a controversial issue, especially in the transport sector. This paper analyses a number of general transport and mode-specific issues that can provide indications for setting up regulatory bodies and orienting their strategies....
Transport Outlook 2010
International Transport Forum
01 Nov 2010
This paper provides evidence on and discussion of recent developments in global transport markets and analyzes what policies look most promising for stabilizing CO2- emissions from light-duty vehicles. In the aftermath of the economic crisis,...
Transport Outlook 2009 (preliminary version)
International Transport Forum
01 Jun 2009
This second ITF Transport Outlook continues building towards a full-fledged Transport Outlook, building upon the first Outlook (JTRC, 20081). The 2008 Outlook investigated the relation between expected GDP evolution and the demand for road transport,...
Transport Outlook 2008
International Transport Forum
01 May 2008
This short outlook is designed to test the potential for key policy instruments for mitigating emissions from road transport, and particularly from light duty vehicles, the largest source of CO2 emissions from transport (see Figure 1 and Table 1). It...
Transport Infrastructure Inside and Across Urban Regions
Börje Johansson
01 Dec 2007
Infrastructure investment represents large capital values, whereas the benefits and other consequences are extended into the future. This makes methods to assess investment plans an important issue. This paper develops a framework in which...
Toward Risk-Based Aviation Security Policy
Robert W. Poole, Jr.
01 Nov 2008
The well-coordinated terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 presented the world with a new aviation security threat: the capture of aircraft in flight to be used as human-guided missiles. The two previous threats—hijacking an aircraft for ransom and...
The Wider Economic Benefits of Transportation
T. R. Lakshmanan
01 Dec 2007
Economic contributions of investments of transport infrastructure are typically assessed from a microeconomic perspective, which tries to identify the link between specific transport infrastructure improvements and the productivity of specific...
The Wider Economic Benefit of Transport
International Transport Forum
01 Jan 2008
This paper summarizes and organizes presentations and discussions of the Round Table on Macro-, meso and micro infrastructure planning and assessment tools, that took place at Boston University, on 25 and 26 October 2007. The goal of the meeting was...
The Singapore Experience
Kian-Keong Chin
01 Jan 2010
Singapore is an island-state with a land area of about 710 square km, measuring 42 km across and 23 km from north to south. Densely populated with more than 4.8 million people, its transport needs are served by an infrastructure of 147 km of MRT/LRT...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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...