European Transport Conference 1999

European Transport Conference 1999: Seminars

Seminar	Papers
Financing Infrastructure	Private finance for motorways - the way forward for EastetnEurope and the CIS The role of the private sector in operating and maintaining road networks - an international review Toll motorways BOT or PPP projects: the position of an operator and developer Bidding for roads: the Portuguese experience PPP in Polderland: Holland's experience with PPP and its contribution to PPP theory Financing large road infrastructure projects in Poland Traffic and revenue forecasting for privately funded transport projects Developing demand predictions for a study of interregional transport Mobility and accessibility aspects of the fixed link between Denmark and Sweden
Operating Railways for Traffic Growth and Profit	How good are our railways? Rail freight oppommities in Australia Financing rail projects in Central and Eastern Europe Picking up the gauntlet: responding to the capacity challenge Regulation of freight railways in North America and Europe Compared performance of railways companies in Europe To what extent can regulatory and structural reform improve performance for East and Central European railways? Partnering deals and efficient border arrangements the key to growth of European rail freight Planning and decision making of international railway lines: co-operation and conflict between The Netherlands and its neighbours Railway track access and use - a proposed charging methodology for individual and interconnected systems Provision of socially necessary rail services Economies of scale and railways infrastructure pricing: empiricism and criticism
Pan European Transport Policy	Does the practice respond to the rhetoric? On the contribution of the contemporary EU investment policies in transport infrastructure to a sustainable future European transport forecasts for 2020: the STREAMS model results TEN-T implementation: assessment of the repercussions at national and regional levels A proposed methodology for measuring accessibility taking into account economic relations and dally cycles Paying the price for sustainable mobility The car and fiscal policy: a European comparison Road infrastructure cost accounting in the EU countries Trilateral logistics The future for competition and ownership in European transport industries GUIDE: identifying good and bad practice in passenger transport interchange
Public Transport Planning and Management	Barrier-free public transportation in Japan: the necessity of some fundamental changes Design of fully accessible bus stops infrastructure: elements for buses and drivers Interchange in the UK Development and financing of urban rail infrastructure - the case of Athens The "Grand Tram": a backbone for the suburb of Paris Lessons learned from incremental development of light rail - the San Diego experience Praxitele: the missing link Implementing smart card payment systems for transit with mulitpte partners: examples from Germany and the United States Large scale demand responsive transit systems - a local suburban transport solution for the next millennium? UK passenger transport information on the Intemet: promoting best practice through accreditation Enhancing the role of London Transport's telephone information service Towards comprehensive national public transport information on the Internet: the PTI web site Review of bus tendering in Greater London Successful public transport: with or without competition The Norwegian trial scheme for public transport: the conclusions 500 experiments later Evaluating the effectiveness of public transport publicity The demand for public transport trips in the city of Gavle, Sweden - a two stage aggregate, no-linear time-series model
Traffic Management Safety and Intelligent Transport Systems	The DUMAS Project - developing urban management and safety Traffic Demand Management in Action Glasgow City Centre Millennium Plan: traffic management scheme Does prosecution help the driver? Encouraging walking - assessing the effects of change Urban street activity in 20mph zones - emerging findings Cycle and bus priority Adaptive cruise control - what can tile network operator expect? The effect of lane change information provider to vehicle drivers Large-scale testing of intelligent speed adaptation - important evaluation issues Effect of bus location information system on the demand for buses Comparative evaluation ofgreenways and bus priority lanes Bus priority with intermittent bus lanes Using ITS to improve bus operations: examples and oppommities The growing synergism between traffic management and public safety operations Implementing UTMC - Glasgow and A12, London Managing long term congestion in HOV lanes. Effect of 2+vs 3+ limit on the Madrid N - VI Urban high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes: the Leeds experience Adopting electronic toll collection technologies: issues for consideration Dublin road use charging pilot - action The public transport challenge - Greater Belfast ITS in public transport: the need for integration Public transport priorities: data from operators Motorway bus lanes - a false dawn or the start of a revolution? An integrated UTCS/AVM pollution control system Effects on traffic of the setting of overtaking-by-trucks: bans on autobahns ITS impacts on safety: a secondary crash investigation Estimation and analysis of multilane multiclass headway distribution model Dynamic lane allocation control: a model based approach Ramp metering - 10 years on Using intelligent agents for dynamic urban traffic control systems Traveller information systems: what do end-users really want? Slot allocation on congested motorways Design of bus stops as part of bus priorities Transportation practices in the old city of Riga
Transport Planning Policy and Practice	Changing travel behaviour Affective motives for car use Systemhopping - a question of age? Why people don't drive cars Paris region mobility plan: a strategy for the durable development of the region and the capital Attitudes towards transport policy in the light of the results of a long-term city transport policy study Opening up the city centre: closing down the private car Mission impossible? The first year of local transport plans School travel plans Developing an integrated transport culture by changing school travel behaviour A public transport strategy for Southampton Back to the bus: Uni-link and a travel revolution for Southampton and its university Acute hospitals, parking and green travel plans The process of site-based commuter plan development: survey, policies and evaluation The future of mobility management in the UK The employers' role in changing travel choices Transport and social exclusion in London Attracting higher income class to public transport in socially clustered cities: the case of Caracas Economic and social impacts of sustainable transport Night site: improving accessibility and mobility to town centres in the evening The dynamics of local processes towards environmentally sustainable transport - case of Lund, Sweden Implementing sustainable property development The role of citizen groups in urban transport policy in France and Britian Birmingham City Council "visions" transport strategy market research Cross site multicriteria evaluation of urban pricing measures in Europe Going private? Financing the new local transport Ethics, mobility and the market: a starting point for debate New directions in appraisal for local transport plans Towards an integrated approach to transport planning in Norway - the SAC report on the consistency of benefit-cost analysis between sectors Developing joined-up policy assessment frameworks Multi-modal project developments and assessment process in the US - lessons for the UK appraisal framework Reducing the number of short trips by car Prioritising the pedestrian: a framework for the development of a walking strategy Identifying potential cyclists Home zones - a step towards Europe The community impact of traffic calming schemes The relationship between urban form and activity patterns: multivariate analysis of frequently made trips
Transportation Planning Methods	Bias in discrete choice models estimates Calibration performance for the multinomial probit model Nested logit modelling: some hard facts Improved methods of representing travel time reliability in SP experiments Testing recent advances in stated preference design Travellers response to uncertainty: the particular case of driver's response to imprecisely known tolls and charges Calculation of dynamic traffic equilibrium assignments Modelling peak spreading in continuous time Drivers departure time and route choice simulation in an urban environment at peak time Methods for the solution of the combined trip matrix estimation and stochastic user equilibrium assignment problem 101 uses for path-based assignment A comparison of sample enumeration and stochastic microsimulation for urban travel demand forecasting A dynamic analysis of activity and travel patterns Assignment model for timetable-based systems A large scale stochastic timetable-based transit assignment model for route and sub-mode choices A doubly dynamic assignment model for congested urban transit networks Allowing for variable demand in highway scheme assessment Implications of recent research into values-of-time for the classical transport model, forecast and appraisal On the subjective valuation of travel time savings Risk analysis for privately funded transport schemes Irreversibility and flexibility in public investment choice - a case study Valuing transport external effects The monetary valuation of the environmental impacts of road transport: a stated preference approach Integrated computation of time, morbidity and mortality values from revealed preference data Urban transportation demand: dealing with the curse of dimensionality Accessibility to vacant activities: a novel model of destination choice Combined analysis of heteroscedasticity and correlation of repeated observations in SP data A dynamic measurement of the links between public transport, urban sprawl and vehicle ownership: Lyon in the period 1976 - 1995 Aggregation of urban areas in inter-urban traffic models Modelling park and ride The new guideline to assess road investment projects

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European Transport Conference 1999: Seminars