Seminar 2 Rail

“Charging for Infrastructure Wear and Tear and Scarcity Costs”

15/09/2006 in Brussels

Summary Report

Agenda

Presentations (zip, 1 MB)

Introductions; objectives and review of outcomes from first meetings
Jan-Eric Nilsson (Chair) & Bryan Matthews (Raporteur)

New Estimates of Infrastructure Wear and Tear costs: France
Emile Quinet (PSE-ENPC, Paris)

New Estimates of Infrastructure Wear and Tear costs: Britain
Phil Wheat (ITS Leeds)

Swedish Marginal Railway Infrastructure Cost Estimates: A brief review
Mats Andersson (VTI)

Marginal Infrastructure Costs on the Finnish Rail Network
Saara Pekkarinen (University of Oulu), Juha Tervonen (JT-Con)

Cost Driver of Infrastructure
Peter Veit (TU Graz)

Public Accounting and Asset Quality Data
Lou Thompson (Thompson, Galenson and Associates)

Track Capacity Allocation: The problem and one way to deal with it
Jan-Eric Nilsson (VTI)

Towards a new access charges grid in France : Issues and options
Yves Crozet (LET)