Ecmt Round Tables Telematics In Goods Transport Report Of The Seventy Eighth Round Table On Transport Economics Held In Paris On 13 14 October 1988

International specialists at Round Table 78 compare notes on such vital telematics issues as: the strategies adopted in the sector; forms of standardization called for; productivity gains and the obstacles involved.

This Round Table examines research relevant to trends in transport in the coming decade examining the political and economic context, financing, demand and supply and methodological issues.

This Round Table examines the role of shippers and transport operators in the logistics chain and includes reports from France, Sweden, and the Netherlands.

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 examines taxation systems related to international road haulage.

To mark its hundredth Round Table on transport economics, the ECMT decided to publish a special issue. Fifty European experts were asked to submit papers examining not only the major issues addressed by transport economics in the past, but also those that are likely to emerge in the future.