Expert Group 2: Rail

Aims and Objectives

The overall aim of Expert Group 2 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 rail infrastructure. More specific objectives are:

• seeking consensus on the determination of marginal social cost (concentrating on controversial issues such as split of infrastructure costs between fixed and variable, allocation of variable costs to measures of use, variability of cost elasticities, treatment of congestion, scarcity, accident and environmental costs);

• to examine research and experience on the impact of differences in pricing structures and levels

• considering barriers to efficient pricing in the rail sector and ways of overcoming them;

• highlighting particular problems of certain member states (e.g. poor infrastructure, high transit traffic, lack of government funding) and ways of overcoming them.

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

Further Information

Background
Planning
Meetings/Seminars
Provocative Propositions