Ecmt Round Tables Transforming The Structure Of The Freight Transport Sector Report Of The Ninety Ninth Round Table On Transport Economics Held In Paris On 3 4 March 1994

Round Table 99 undertook a thorough analysis of the potential impact of environmental protection, railway privatisation, logistical requirements and falling prices on the structure and operation of the freight transport sector, and of their effects on government policies.

Transforming the Structure of the Freight Transport Sector

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.

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

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

This Round Table examines the quantitative and qualitative evolution and substitution possibilities for employment in transport.