European Transport Conference 1997

European Transport Conference 1997: Seminars

Seminar	Papers
Freight	Trans-European rail freight freeways as catalysts for an intergrated European distribution system High speed freight transport: first steps towards intra-European high speed freight transport by rail Evolution of export-led transport demand by freight category in Europe Modal split at international level: a system of models for Italian-based freight Urban freight distribution by short-distance combined transport Goods deliveries in city centres: have we got the policy balance right? Strategies to reduce the use of energy by road freight transport in cities
Infrastructure Finance, Provision and Operation	Docklands Light Railway: franchising operations in the context of the Lewisham extension concession The Private Finance Initiative within London Underground Ltd Question of public and private partnership in Central and Eastern Europe: concession motorway development programme in Hungary Urban concession roads: the Chilean experience The Copenhagen Metro- financed by the Orestad New Town Major highway schemes from development funding-examples from West Sussex Connect- a successful venture DBFO in roads The Private Finance Initiative in Local Authorities A130 - A design, build, finance and operate project A380 Kingskerswell Bypass- a PFI contender Analysis of the interface between road financing and road management - observations of current trends in Europe A minimum transport standard as a basis for the state transport policy in Kazahstan Road network management in an environment of uncertainty. Effective strategies for media relations for contractors involved with transport projects Improving the utilisation of pavement maintenance funds Long range management of the Finnish minor road network in terms of freight transport, settlement and economic considerations
Pan European Transport Issues	Assessing the impacts of future European transport policy on regional development, environment and economy: a scenarios approach The (im)possibilities of achieving European Transport Policy objectives up to the year 2020: a statistical analysis of expert opinions Moving towards pan-European transport policy-a long term exercise in institutional change Private sector involvement in European road network financing: changes and pitfalls oftransnational road pricing and road privatisation Perspectives of Transalpine Traffic The North-western European land bridge Environmental impact assessment of the Nordic Triangle in Finland Impediments to interoperabiIity in the organisation oftrans-European transport systems Separation of infrastructure and operation of railways in Europe- institutional consequences on the international level European Union enlargement issues in transport EBKD updated Transport Operations Policy The French programme for transport research: PREDIT 1996 - 2000 Sustainability in the Baltics: developing transport strategies in Lithuania A new Metro Line for Budapest: a comparison with London and Paris Co-operative stategies and supply chain integration in linear shipping. The case of Italian firms
Policy Planning and Sustainibility	Choosing the bus: modal choice amongst young people Pilot project "Mobile Sehopfeim" - to change mobility-related attitudes and traffic behaviour Motorcycling: time to apply the brakes? Demand for car pooling in the UK Leeds Cycle Challenge What went wrong and what can we learn from it? Travel reduction strategies: intentions and outcomes New urbanism: the movement system and mixed-use town Achieving mode share targets for out of centre sites Towards the sustainable city: the impact of land use - transport interactions Mixed use development and car dependency Intraurban relations between transport and built environment - results from a comparative urban study The influence of development control on city structure - with examples from five different cities The development of an integrated technology policy for transport Sustainable transport: assumptions on behaviour change Revival of the airship? 2020 vision: Heaven, Hell or somewhere in between? Car-free housing estates: site and design considerations Regenerating urban centres through integrated land use and transport planning policies - lessons from the USA Effects of accessibility on residential land patterns AMPT E, Steer Davies Gleave, UK Reducing car travel through travel blending Can car-sharing substantially reduce the problems arising from car- ownership - some empirical findings from Germany Breaking through habitual behaviour - is car sharing an ins~maent for reducing car use? A trio management package for relieving traffic congestion in Cairo: traffic, travel demand and land-nse management Theory-into practice in Dordrecht Efficient road pricing - an assessment of dynamic road user tolls in the Stockholm region Large changes in prices: an empirical controlled budget approach Trading in mobility rights: is this the way to solve mobility problems? The role of parking standards in sustainable development Do parking policies meet their objectives? The effects of traffic restraint options in Bristol The production of emissions estimates using SCOOT Assessment of traffic control measures for the reduction of pollutant emissions using traffic flow simulation Valuations of noise, air quality and accessibility: evidence for households and businesses The use of contingent ranking for variations in air quality validation due to Ixansportation projects Vehicle occupant exposure to air pollution Carbon-Dioxide emissions from travel and freight in IEA countries: past and future Unsustainability - Transport Problem or Lifestyle Problem? Automatic Remote Control to Reduce Vehicle Emissions
Public Transport Planning and Operations	Total trip service: opportunities and threats for inter-modal passenger transport Intermodality: success by integrating public transport modes and cycling Interconnectivity in public transport: orgarfsing the market Integral design method for regional public transport: organising the market Present and potential demand for park-and-ride in Madrid From the development of interchanges to planning urban projects: the contribution of travel surveys Smart stops - the key to Quality Bus success Use of concessionary travel permits in London: results of a diary survey Accessible bus services: UK demonstrations Fully scheduled or dial-a-ride? the future direction of accessibility policy for local public transport Learning disabled people - the forgotten passengers? Tariff integration in Madrid: characteristics and effects on mobility How safe is bus travel? analysis of assaults against bus staff and passengers Economic analysis of the deregulation of coach services in Sweden - through model simulations of historic and hypothetical competitive situations Presenting local travel information on the World Wide Web: Buckinghamshire and beyond Strathclyde Bustime: a different approach? Introducing telematics technologies into the provision of demand responsive transport services (DRTS) How to tell bus passengers what they need to know Switching to public transport: results of a UITP trial
Rail	The restructured railway in Great Britain: performance and prospects Trying to catch the train: railway restrucakring in Hungary (1989-1996) Regulation of the railways post privatisation Competition and innovation have not been improved as a result of the reform of the Netherlands railways: the outline of an alternative model Analysis of the subsidies bid for British Rail passenger franchises The privatisation of passenger rail services in Britain: an assessment of the impacts of on-the-track competition Rail and coach competition: Midland Main Line study Belgian Railway domestic passenger services study of the impacts of services and pricing policies Valuing users willingness to pay for rolling stock improvements Access pricing in the railway system: problems and possible solutions A passenger station choice model for the British rail network MERLIN: model to evaluate revenue and loadings for Intercity
Traffic Management and Road Safety	Implementation of an advanced AVM system for the Trieste bus network The end of the bus lane. Centrally located busways: problems of design and implementation Bus priority- the South and West London experience Bus priority - Route 220 monitoring Uxbridge Road bus priority demonstration project SPRINT: active bus priority in fixed time Urban Traffic Control in London Evaluation of the impact of a High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane and other infrastructure measures in the Madrid transport system HOV, HOT congestion pricing in the United States Inter Urban Advanced Transport Telematics (ATT): Some development options for the UK Accidents at urban mini-roundabouts An analysis of urban road traffic safety in Stockholm- the use of aggregate time-series model with the TRIO programme The effects of trend over time on accident model predictions Multivariate modelling of accident risk on the national road network A study of four styles of pedestrian crossings Enhanced operating strategies to improve pedestrian amenity and safety at midblock signalled pedestrian crossings Crowd monitoring using image sequence processing Safety audit on existing urban roads Intelligent Transport Systems at the Atlanta Olympic Games - How did we get there? Travel to the Millennium Exhibition at Greenwich Sustainable transport in Ipswich - A route study approach Traffic safety for vulnerable clients: Excellence step by step Fit for life - Healthy transport makes sense Preparing our towns for the 21st century: What are the key elements of a successful traffic management package? Schools in the community: An educational programme on traffic safety Maintaining safety improvements: The roles in and around schools 303 The deterrent effect of enforcement in road safety "Killing speed saves lives" - The outcome of the City of York's speed management plan. The effects of lowering the UK legal limit for drink driving Congestion - is it really such a big problem? Public preferences for traffic calming: An investigation using multi criteria procedures Traffic calming initiatives in the USA - A critical review The use of coloured surfacing in road layout
Transportation Planning Methods Volume 1	Feasibility of measuring the induced traffic effects of the completion of the Manchester motorway box Modelling build-up of demand for new transport infrastructure Concessionary fares: trip generation among elderly passengers Traffic analysis of a congestion pricing operation on'the French highway network Monitoring the effects of transport policy measures: experiences from the Supertram monitoring study Three years of continuous panel surveys on the impact of the North European high speed train on mobility behaviour: main results and essential methodological findings A review of the Value of Time: evidence from British experience A simulation method for determining the confidence interval of a weighted group average Value of Time Modelling the influences of the characteristics of freight transport on the Value of Time and the mode choice Freight transportation system modelling: chains, chains and chains Marginal costs and scale economies in Spanish ports: a multiproduct approach OPTIMA: optimisation of policies for transport integration in metropolitan areas: a review of the method applied to nine European cities OPTIMA: optimisation of policies for transport integration in metropolitan areas: a review of the results for nine European cities Developing appraisal procedures for Trans-European networks The 14 'priority' Trans-European Networks (or TENs) span the member states of the European Union Assessing urban transport policy impacts using a highly aggregate strategic model An extended methodology for assessment of transport infrastructure projects Land and amenity valuation: revising the Department ofTransport's COBA assessment procedure Cost benefit analyses of road pricing in The Netherlands Transport impacts on land use: potential methods and their relevance to strategic planning "Office suites suit the railways": the effects of office relocation to public transport nodal points on passenger mobility Evaluating the regeneration impacts of intra-urban transport investment: lessons from Sheffield, U-K Demonstrating the regeneration impacts of transport investment Transportation and regional agglomeration in Japan: a historical analysis 1920 -90 Study of parking and traffic demand: a traffic restraint analysis model Assessing the impact of integrated traus modal urban transport pricing on modal split A feasibility study of national transport modelling for the UK Estimating base matrices: the combined calibration method
Transportation Planning Methods Volume 2	A traffic demand management strategy generator to improve air quality in urban areas Current issues in travel and transport demand surveys Pedestrian route choice: an empirical study Applicability of sensitivity analysis of the traffic assignment problem Optimisation of area traffic control subject to user equilibrium traffic assignment SUE and junction modelling - the extension of Stochastic User Equilibrium assignment to model realistic junction delays On the distributions of the stochastic components in SUE traffic assignment models A pseudo-dynamic assignment to extraurban road networks using a C- logit route choice model Stochastic and deterministic formulations of dynamic traffic assignment Estimating missing link volumes in a traffic network Removing double-counting from RSI databases Interactions and independence in stated preference modelling Stated preference and the 'Ecological Fallacy' Addressing the "packaging" problem in stated preference studies Validation of stated preference forecasting: a case study involving Anglo- continental freight Validation of rail demand forecasts generated by competing stated preference and revealed preference models: observations based on low cost panel and conventional surveys. Car availability: accounting for temporal variations Improved methods for trip generation A microeconomic trip generation equilibrium model Generalised maximum entropy methods in transportation planning On the applicability of the multinomial probit model How good is art estimated logit model? Estimation accuracy analysed by Monte Carlo simulations

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European Transport Conference 1997: Seminars