Ecmt Round Tables Promoting Regional Transport Report Of The Eighty Second Round Table On Transport Economics Held In Paris On 1 2 June 1990

Round Table 82 compares the experiences of a number of countries and seeks to determine what the prospects are for the development of regional transport.

This publication describes the techniques used for evaluation of transport infrastructure investment in a number of ECMT countries and the effectiveness of such methods, and examines conditions governing their use.

This publication assesses past experience with deregulation in a number of countries and reviews ways and means of making the freight transport market truly efficient.

This Round Table addresses the issue of high-speed transport networks and regional policy.

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.

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.

This Round Table is an assessment of the attempts made since the early sixties to model passenger and freight transport demand.

This Round Table considers the benefits of different modes of transport for the general community and their respective contributions to economic growth.