Expert Group 1: Interurban road

Aims and Objectives

The overall aim of Expert Group 1 is to bring together researchers, policy makers and stakeholders in a series of four 1 day seminars, in order to synthesise information on research and practice and build consensus on the issue of pricing the use of inter urban roads. More specific objectives are:

• seeking consensus on the determination of marginal social cost, concentrating on issues where controversy remains (e.g. split of road infrastructure costs between fixed and variable, allocation of variable costs to measures of use, treatment of congestion, external costs of accidents, valuation of environmental effects);

• considering barriers to pricing reform in the road sector, and ways of overcoming them in the light of practical experience

• highlighting differences in the situation on the interurban road sector which require special attention for certain member states (e.g. those with poor infrastructure, heavy transit traffic and acute budgetary difficulties).

The expert group leaders are Prof. Chris Nash (ITS).

Further information

Background
Planning
Meetings/Seminars
Provocative Propositions