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Program

Program Second International Conference on Funding Transportation Infrastructure

Leuven, 20 - 21 September 2007

Faculty Club, Groot Begijnhof 14, 3000 Leuven

SEPTEMBER 19

9 am – 5 pm

Final Symposium of the “FUNDING INFRASTRUCTURE – Guidelines for Europe” consortium – participation is free for
registered participants – Program on:

http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/projects/funding/events.htm
Room: St. Barbara (Convent van Chièvres)

5 pm

Drink and Registration Conference SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUNDING TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE, organizers Stef Proost, André de Palma and Robin Lindsey
Room: Lemaire

6:30  pm

Conference Dinner
Room: Lemaire

SEPTEMBER 20

8:15 – 8:35

Introduction to the Conference
Room: Lemaire

8:35 - 10:35

Session A1: Cost Benefit rules

Chair: Kurt Van Dender
Room: Lemaire

Session B1: PPP-economics

Chair: Luc Leruth
Room: St. Barbara (Convent van Chièvres)

 

Quinet Emile, Effect of market structure on optimal pricing and cost recovery
Discussant: Kidokoro Yukihiro

Kidokoro Yukihiro, Revenue recycling within transport networks
Discussant: Fosgerau Mogens

Fosgerau Mogens and Pilegaard Ninette, Cost-benefit rules for transport projects when labor supply is endogenous and taxes are distortionary
Discussant: Van Dender Kurt

Brueckner Jan K. and Van Dender Kurt, Atomistic congestion tolls at concentrated airports? Seeking a unified view in the internalization debate
Discussant: Quinet Emile

Nillson Jan-Eric, Public Private Partnership: why and how
Discussant: Leruth Luc

Albalate Daniel and Bel Germà, Regulating concessions of toll motorways: an empirical study on fixed versus variable term contracts
Discussant: Fukui Yoshitaka

Fukui Yoshitaka and Oda Kyoji, Is public private partnership a panacea for transportation infrastructure? A lesson from the funding of Japanese high-speed train network
Discussant: Albalate Daniel

De Palma André, Leruth Luc and Prunier Guillaume, A principal-agent based typology of risks in Public Private Partnerships
Discussant: Nillson Jan-Eric

10:35 – 10:50

Coffee

10:50 -11:50

Session A2: Institutional Comparisons

Chair: Pia Koskenoja
Room: Lemaire

Session B2: Airline Economics

Chair: Nicole Adler
Room: St. Barbara (Convent van Chièvres)

 

Yamaguchi Katsuhiro, Funding systems of transport infrastructure: international comparative analysis
Discussant: Ragazzi Giorgio

Gühnemann Astrid and Koskenoja Pia, Infrastructure funds: lessons learnt from experiences in European countries and the US
Discussant: Parumog Michelle

Czerny Achim I., Congestion management under uncertainty in a two-airport system
Discussant: Adler Nicole

Adler Nicole, Nash C. and Pels E., Air and rail transport in the long distance passenger market: are the high speed rail infrastructure costs justifiable?
Discussant: Czerny Achim I.

11:50 – 12:50

Keynote Address by Jan Brueckner: Internalization of airport congestion and the self-financing theorem
Room: Lemaire

12:50 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 16:00

Session A3: Assessing Freight projects

Chair: Robin Lindsey
Room: Lemaire

Session B3: New approaches to pricing and investment

Chair: André de Palma
Room: St. Barbara (Convent Van Chièvres)

 

Koetze Mark J. and Rouwendal Jan, The impact of transport pricing schemes on infrastructure appraisal: a case study for the Betuweroute

Korzhenevych Artem and Schürmann Carsten, Testing the European-wide spatial equity and efficiency impacts of the priority TEN-T projects
Discussant: Lindsey Robin

Johnson Daniel and Whiteing Tony, Modelling freight flows on the Betuwe line and Brenner axis
Discussant: Korzhenevych Artem

Lindsey Robin, Transportation infrastructure investments, pricing and gateway competition: policy considerations
Discussant: Johnson Daniel

Holguin-Veras José, Necessary conditions for off-hour deliveries and the effectiveness of urban freight road pricing and alternative financial policies in competitive markets
Discussant: Meunier David

de Palma André and Moez Kilani, Funding the construction and maintenance of roads in emerging countries
Discussant: De Borger Bruno

Meunier David, Sharing investment costs and negotiating railway infrastructure charges
Discussant: Holguin-Veras José

De Borger Bruno, Proost Stef and Van Dender Kurt, Private Port Pricing and public investment in Port and Hinterland capacity
Discussant: Kilani Moez

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee

16:30 – 18:30

Session A4: Assessing cross border transport investments

Chair: Panos Papaioannou
Room: Lemaire

Session B4: Alternative approaches to financing infrastructure

Chair: Äse Nossum
Room: St. Barbara (Convent van Chièvres)

 

Eisenkopf Alexander and Knorr Andreas, Transportation infrastructure planning in Europe - Pitfalls and opportunities
Discussant: Mun Se-il

Mun Se-il and Nakagawa Shintaro, Investment and pricing of cross-border transport infrastructure
Discussant: Eisenkopf Alexander

Papaioannou Panos, Xanthopoulos Panagiotis and Peleka Maria, Economic analysis of the TEN South-West high-speed railway axis using the MOLINO II model

Schnöbel Christian, Governance of the German rail infrastructure industry - Do public private partnerships solve the problem?
Discussant: Nossum Äse

Gutierrez Mauricio, Hinojosa Sergio and Mansilla Patricio, Public-Private partnerships for the development of public Transport infrastructure
Discussant: Schnöbel Christian

Nossum Äse, Alternative financing schemes and policy instruments
Discussant:
Mansilla Patricio

19:00

Dinner with Adrian Moore (Reason Fundation, USA) as speaker on “Inventing a New Transportation Finance System”

SEPTEMBER 21

8:45-10:15

Session A5: Pricing of Congestion

Chair: Saskia Van der Loo
Room: Lemaire

Session B5: Experience with tolling systems

Chair: Giorgio Ragazzi
Room: St. Barbara (Convent van Chièvres)

 

Rouwendal Jan, Knockaert Jasper and Verhoef Erik, Congestion in the Dutch Randstad: commuter traffic between Zoetermeer and the Hague during the morning rush hour

Proost Stef and Van der Loo Saskia, Implementation of marginal social cost pricing in a federal state
Discussant
: Rouwendal Jan

Parumog Michelle, Schemes for earmarking road transport taxes and charges for transportation sector investments in East Asia
Discussant: Koskenoja Pia

Hung Wing-tat, Railway cum property development funding model - a case of study Hong Kong
Discussant: Yamaguchi Katsuhiro

Ragazzi Giorgio, Financing highways through tolls: lessons from the Italian experience
Discussant: Hung Wing-tat

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee

10:45 – 11:45

Session A6: Project assessment case studies

Chair: Andreas Brenck
Room: Lemaire

Session B6: Global financing Challenges

Chair: Susan Stone
Room: St. Barbara (Convent van Chièvres)

 

Proost Stef and Zhang Shuangquan, Road tolling game and investment in China

Brenck Andreas, Jäkel Klaus and Winter Martin, Transalpine freight transport: An assessment of the Brenner Base Tunnel

De Ceuster Griet, Ivanova Olga, Dunkerley Fay and Proost Stef, Assessing the welfare costs of alternative financing schemes for the TEN-T infrastructure projects
Discussant: Stone Susan

Stone Susan, Asia's infrastructure challenges: Issues of institutional capacity
Discussant: Ivanova Olga

11.45 – 12:45

Keynote Address by dr. Edward Calthrop, European Investment Bank , “Theory and practice of cost benefit analysis in transport projects
Room: Lemaire

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 16:30

Session A7: Institutional experience

Chair: Astrid Gühnemann
Room: Lemaire

Session B7: PPP experience

Chair: James Clarkin
Room: St. Barbara (Convent van Chièvres)

 

Asteris Michael and Collins Alan, Interregional and international barriers to UK container port investment and competition
Discussant: Gühnemann Astrid

Eisenkopf Alexander and Knorr Andreas, Funding Transportation Infrastructure – The case of the German VIFG (Verkehrsinfrastrukturfinanzierungsgesellschaft)

Gühnemann Astrid, Marsden G., Kelly C. and Smith A., Impacts of funding allocations mechanisms on infrastructure provision: national and regional experiences from the UK and Germany

Matsuno Yuki, Evaluating local public transport finance in Japan
Discussant: Boucq Elise

Boucq Elise and Papon Francis, Taxing land owner benefits from a new transport infrastructure: where France's rigid tax framework needs innovative engineering
Discussant: Matsuno Yuki

Clarkin James, Protecting the Canadian investment - mitigating the risk in federal transportation infrastructure contribution programs
Discussant: Lindsey Robin

Medda Francesca and Pels Eric, Inefficiencies in public-private partnership transport provision
Discussant: Zhang George

Galilea Patricia and Francesca Medda, How country experience, foreign private investors and multilateral lenders effect the success of public-private partnerships in transport
Discussant: Clarkin James

16:30

Close and drink

       

 

 

 

 

 

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