TWG G Transport Economics and Policy

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ECTRI ASSEMBLY MEETING Bratislava, Slovakia 11
12 November 2007

• TWG G Transport Economics and Policy
• Status Report
• Francis Cheung / DVS Centre for Transport and
  Navigation

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Contents of the Presentation

• Presentation of the group TWG G
• Progress report since the Oslo Meeting
• Scientific collaboration and common fields of
  interest
• Preparation and partnership for FP7 proposals
• Agenda for the coming months

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1. Presentation of the group TWG G

• TWG G a co-ordination group to promote
  scientific collaborations and form consortia to
  prepare FP7 proposals
• Subject Transport Economics and Policy
• Ariane Dupont-Kieffer (INRETS) moderator
• José Vassallo (UPM) rapporteur
• Claudine van der Sluijs (DVS) rapporteur

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2. Progress since the Oslo Meeting

• Joint Meeting TWG G and Community of Practice on
  Economic Evaluation in Paris (8/11/2007)
• 15 participants and 8 institutes INRETS, DLR,
  DVS, CEDEX, TØI, UPM, UBFT, VTI
• Agreement to form an active joint-working group
  in research activities

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3. Scientific collaboration fields of interest

• Transport Economics and Policy
• 1. Economic Evaluation
• 2. Regulation and Financing
• 3. Transport Policies

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3.1. Economic Evaluation

• Demand and supply estimation. (Ariane
  Dupont-INRETS, Jadranka Jovic-UBFLT)
• Evaluation and appraisal of projects. (Harald
  Minken-TØI, Ralf Hedel-DLR)
• Valuation of non-market goods (time and
  reliability). (Francis Cheung-DVS, Harald
  Minken-TØI, Juan Ignacio Sanchez-CEDEX)
• Value of time, value of reliability. (Francis
  Cheung-DVS, Harald Minken-TØI, Juan Ignacio
  Sanchez-CEDEX)
• Interaction with the rest of the economy all
• Ex ante and ex post evaluation, prognoses all

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3. 2. Regulation and Financing

• Pricing and taxation (including road pricing)
• Financing and Organisation, e.g. PPPs and
  out-sourcing
• Revenue raising and re-cycling
• Creation of competitive markets (e.g. labour and
  commodity markets)
• by José Vassallo (UPM) and Jan-Erik Nilsson
  (VTI)
• Law and economics, legislation, Principal Agent
  Theory by Laurent Carnis (INRETS)

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3. 3.Transport Policies

• Political design, implementation and assessment
  of transport policies (Claudine vd Sluijs-DVS)
• Interest groups (Laurent Carnis-INRETS)
• Levels of decision, local, regional, national, EU
  (all members for national comparisons)
• Equity assessment and Equity considerations,
  Welfare measurement (Ariane Dupont-INRETS)

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4. Preparation and Partnership for FP7

• Priority Level 1
• SST. 2008.2.7.1 Policy packages and best
  practices for transport
• Need for clarifications from EU commission
• Lead DVS
• Contact ITS Leeds

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4. Preparation and Partnership for FP7

• SST. 2008.2.7.5 Transport forecasting and
  globalisation
• Collaboration with TNO and ECMT/OECD
• Collaboration with members of TWG D (freight)

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4. Preparation and Partnership for FP7

• SST. 2008.5.1.1 Advanced and cost-effective
  infrastructure, construction, maintenance and
  monitoring
• Need for clarifications from EU commission
  (technical and economic perspectives)
• Lead VTI together with UPM

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4. Preparation and Partnership for FP7

• Priority Level 2
• TPT. 2008.5 Techno-economic analysis per mode
  to meet EU GHG emission reduction targets at the
  horizon 2020 and beyond
• Collaboration intended with TWG C (climate
  change) and TWG D (freight)
• SST. 2008.2.7.6 Assessment of ITS tools for
  better decision making
• Collaboration intended with TWG A (urban
  mobility) and TWG E (ITS)

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5. Agenda for the coming months

• Electronic desk (INRETS)
• Exchange CV list of publications
• Channel for networking and information
  dissemination
• To present research programme, co-operative
  framework annoted list of references

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5. Agenda for the coming months

• Prepare joint papers and networking
• Prepare joint proposals to EU Commission for FP7
  projects
• Cost Action proposal for funding purposes (spring
  2008) (INRETS)

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5. Next meeting 7-8 February 2008

• Research programme, joint papers
• Preparation for FP7 proposals (workshops)
• 4 presentations
• Jandranka Jovic (UBFT) on traffic models in
  Serbia (Challenges and issues)
• Laurent Carnis (INRETS) on speed control
  enforcement
• José Vassallo (UPM) on PPPs in Spain
• Martin Soppé (INRETS) on Modal Choice in freight
  sector lessons from shippers survey in France