The Future for Interurban Passenger Transport
Bringing Citizens Closer Together
Economic growth, trade and the concentration of population in large cities will intensify demand for interurban transport services. Concurrently, the need to manage environmental impacts effectively will increase. How successful we are in coping with demand will depend on our ability to innovate, to manage congestion, and to improve the quality of transport services. Technological and regulatory innovation will shape the future of transport.
These conference proceedings bring together ideas from leading transport researchers from around the world related to the future for interurban passenger transport.. A first set of papers investigates what drives demand for interurban passenger transport and infers how it may evolve in the future. The remaining papers investigate transport policy issues that emerge as key challenges: when to invest in high-speed rail, how to regulate to ensure efficient operation, how to assign infrastructure to different types of users, and how to control transport’s environmental footprint by managing modal split and improving modal performance.
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Final Session
International Transport Forum
The final session of the Symposium was a panel discussion between Cristina Narbona Ruiz, Ambassador to the OECD, Paolo Costa, President of the Venice Port Authority, and Chris Nash, Professor at Leeds University, chaired by Francesc Robusté. The main points of the discussion are summarized below, followed by the concluding remarks of Francesc Robusté.
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