ECMT Round Tables Time and Transport


Book Description

This Round Table revisits the extended literature on the valuation of passenger time and discusses the under-researched topic of the value of time in freight transport.




ECMT Round Tables National Systems of Transport Infrastructure Planning


Book Description

The Round Table discusses changes in national systems of transport infrastructure planning and the lessons for the further improvement of planning processes.




ECMT Round Tables Transport and International Trade


Book Description

This Round Table presents three papers focusing on the evolution of international transport costs over the past decades and the benefits expected from investment in transport facilities and the reduction of the costs of crossing borders.







ECMT Round Tables Structural Changes in Population and Impact on Passenger Transport Report of the Eighty-Eighth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 13-14 June 1991


Book Description

Current changes in the structure of population, whether they relate to ageing or the radical modification of social practices, are affecting the level of usage of private cars. Round Table 88 examines the scale of these changes and how public transport can respond.




ECMT Round Tables Transfers Through the Transport Sector Evaluation of Re-Distribution Effects: Report of the Forty-Eighth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 29-30 November 1979


Book Description

This Round Table presents a survey of the problems pertaining to the distributional impact of investments in transportation facilties, in particular the impact on land values.







ECMT Round Tables Transport and Spatial Distribution of Activities Report of the Eighty-Fifth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 5-6 April 1990


Book Description

This report seeks to determine what influence high-speed rail lines lines will have on the regions served, particularly in the light of experience with the TGV Sud-Est in France.




ECMT Round Tables Changes in Transport Users' Motivation for Modal Choice Freight Transport. Report of the Sixty-Ninth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 6-7 December 1984


Book Description

This Round Table examines changes in freight transport users' motivation for modal choice and includes reports from Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.




ECMT Round Tables Possibilities and Limitations of Combined Transport Report of the Ninety-First Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 24-25 October 1991


Book Description

Round Table 91 deals with such issues as multimodal terminals, terminal hauls, saturation of rail infrastructure, standardisation of equipment and cost of transhipment and also draws attention to the positive aspects of the growth of combined transport.