Seminar 3 Revenues

IMPLEMENTATION OF PRICING AND FUNDING REFORMS

4th December 2007 in Brussels

Meeting report

Agenda

Introductions; objectives and review of outcomes from previous meeting
Phil Goodwin (Chair) and James Laird (Rapporteur)

09:45 Summary of progress in other Expert Groups
Chris Nash (Expert Group Leader)

10.05 Discussion

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Efficiency and equity implications of using transport prices to fund new
infrastructure – some results from FUNDING
Stef Proost (KULeuven, Belgium)

11:15 Discussion

11:45 Implementation paths to inter-urban pricing reforms
Esko Niskanen (STAResearch, Finland)

12:15 Discussion

12.45 Lunch

13.45 Resistance to road pricing reforms. Implications to improve acceptability
Jens Schade (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)

14:15 Discussion

14.45 Open discussion

15:15 Tea

15:30 Testing consensus
Phil Goodwin (Chair)