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The Future for Interurban Passenger Transport
Bringing Citizens Closer Together
ABOUT THE THE SYMPOSIUM
Organised every three years by the Joint Transport Research Centre of the OECD and the International Transport Forum, the Symposium aims to stimulate thinking on transport economics of direct relevance to transport policymaking. It brings together researchers from universities, research institutes, government, consultancy, transport operators, and organisations representing transport industries and transport users. The press is also invited to the Symposium, which attracts over 300 participants from around the world.
The Madrid Symposium will focus on the development of interurban passenger transport, and will open with a keynote address from one of the world’s most influential thinkers on economic geography, Professor Jacques-François Thisse. It will be organised around a series of debates on presentations from leading transport economists on the following themes:
Future trends in inter-urban passenger transport
The prospects for interurban travel demand: examining the socio-economic drivers of demand, factors determining modal choice and the impact of supply side factors - competition, innovation and prices.
Adapting networks to the passenger transport market: long-term planning and assessment
Infrastructure planning and assessment for efficient transport services: the role of long-term plans, and the evaluation of major infrastructure projects.
Competition and regulation of interurban travel
Intermodal competition in interurban passenger markets; examining critical regulatory and governance issues.
Transport system interactions and innovation
Managing transport flows on congested infrastructure: dedicated freight lanes and intelligent tolling; the potential of smart ticketing and other innovations to provide integrated interurban transport services; development of efficient intermodal nodes, providing better access to major terminals.
Sustainable interurban mobility
The potential and cost effectiveness of trading systems to manage greenhouse gas emissions from aviation; the potential of alternative instruments. Effective use of strategic environmental assessment for managing the environmental impacts of transport overall.
ABOUT ITF
The International Transport Forum is an inter-governmental body within the OECD family. The Forum is a global platform for transport policymakers and stakeholders. Its objective is to serve political leaders and a larger public in developing a better understanding of the role of transport in economic growth, and the role of transport policy in addressing the social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. .The Forum organises a Conference for Ministers and leading figures from civil society each May in Leipzig, Germany.
The International Transport Forum was created under a Declaration issued by the Council of Ministers of the ECMT (European Conference of Ministers of Transport) at its Ministerial Session in May 2006 under the legal authority of the Protocol of the ECMT, signed in Brussels on 17 October 1953, and legal instruments of the OECD. The Forum’s Secretariat is located in Paris.
The Members of the Forum are: Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, FYROM, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The OECD and the International Transport Forum established a Joint Transport Research Centre in 2004. The Centre conducts co-operative research programmes addressing all modes of transport to support policymaking in member countries and contribute to the Ministerial sessions of the International Transport Forum.
Further information about the International Transport Forum is available on Internet at the following address: www.internationaltransportforum.org
