Report of the One Hundred and Thirty Sixth Round Table on Transport Economics
Subtitle: estimation and evaluation of transport costs.
Contributors: European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Economic Research Centre.; Transport Research Centre.
Series: Round table -- 136; Round table (Transport Research Centre) -- 136.
Publisher: OECD; European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Paris, France
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9789282101513
Subjects: Transportation -- Costs -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Estimation and evaluation of transport costs; Estimation et évaluation des coûts de transport.
Description: Cost data for the construction and operation of facilities are essential for the evaluation of infrastructure services supplied by private or public providers. This roundtable examines what data is needed for evaluation; which methods best measure the efficiency of service provision and benchmark providers; how regulatory regimes impact costs; and how regulators can counter the asymmetry of information as well as the incentive for data providers to selectively serve business rather than user interests.--Publisher's description.
Notes: At head of title: Transport Research Centre.

Also available in French under the title: Estimation et évaluation des coûts de transport.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Measuring inefficiencies in transport systems: between technology and incentives / by P. Gagnepain and M. Ivaldi; title: Infrastructure maintenance costs: a comparison of road, rail and inland navigation, and implications for user charges / by P. Rietveld, F. Bruinsma and M. Koetse; title: Technical efficiency in the Portuguese airports with a stochastic cost frontier model / by C. Barros; title: Transport cost levels, productivity and efficiency measures: some theory and main policy uses / by A. Estache and L. Trujillo.