Report of the one hundred and twenty-ninth Round Table on Transport Economics : held in Paris on 13th-4th May 2004 on the following topic : transport services, the limits of (de)regulation / Transport Research Centre.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Government document

Author/Creator:

European Conference of Ministers of Transport.

Contributor:

European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Economic Research Centre.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Conference Name:

Round Table on Transport Economics (129th : 2004 : Paris, France)

Round Table on Transport Economics.

Series:

ECMT Round Tables, 19900228 ; no.129.

ECMT Round Tables, 19900228 ; no.129

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation--Deregulation--Europe--Congresses.

Transportation.

Transportation and state--Europe--Congresses.

Transportation and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p. )

Other Title:

Transport services, the limits of (de)regulation

Round table 129

L'offre de transports, les limites de la (dé)réglementation.

ECMT round tables no. 129 transport services : the limits of (de)regulation.

Place of Publication:

Paris : European Conference of Ministers of Transport : Distributed by OECD, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While deregulation and privatisation in the transport sector have led to increases in productivity in general, not all reform hopes have materialised. In particular, the reform of the provision of infrastructure services has not caused the expected mobilisation of private resources, and concession relations have been less stable and less efficiency-enhancing than expected. In view of current discussions of reform results, the Round Table focused on the following issues: What are the limits for deregulation? Which are the crucial factors that necessitate regulation? What is the role of the transaction costs of regulation? What is the cost of regulation?

Contents:

INTRODUCTORY REPORTS

Delimiting Regulatory Needs by G. Knieps, Germany

1. Introduction

2. Theory of monopolistic bottlenecks

3. Competition potential on the markets for transport services

4. Competitive potential of traffic control systems

5. Regulation of access to transport infrastructure

6. Current reform of access to European airports

7. Reform of access to the European rail network

Transport Infrastructure Deregulation and Public-Private Partnership by A. Estache and T. Serebrisky, United States

2. How big is the role for the private sector in transport infrastructure?

3. Forms of private sector participation in transport

4. Have transport de-regulation and residual regulation been effective?

5. Towards a re-regulation of the sector?

6. Conclusions

Yardstick Competition for Transport Infrastructure Services by D. Bouf and J. Leveque, France

Introduction

1. Brief overview of the regulation problem

2. Survey of the main theoretical approaches

3. Applications of yardstick competition to utilities regulation

4. Yardstick competition in infrastructure provision

5. Summary and conclusions

Annex: Auriol’s Model

The Regulation of Transport Services and Infrastructure: Theoretical and Policy Issues  by M. Ponti, Italy

1. A few theoretical assumptions

2. The scope of traditional planning in the transport sector

3. The scope of market competition

4. The scope of public regulation

5. Impact of proper regulation on overall transport policy

6. A few first-hand Italian cases of regulatory start-ups

7. Concluding remarks

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS

-Round Table debate on reports

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Notes:

Also published in French under the title: L'offre de transports, les limites de la (de)reglementation.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-60780-7

9786610607808

92-821-2346-4

OCLC:

68705329