Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School 2007        
Program for the Summer School

Urban Transport: Networks and Spatial Interactions
9-11 July 2007

Monday, July 9th

Concepts and Building Blocks: Demand, Supply and Equilibrium

08:30 -09:30

Registration Summer School

09:30 -09:45

Welcome
Edoardo Marcucci University of Urbino and Kuhmo Group

09:45 -10:00

Opening of Summer School
Edoardo Marcucci University of Urbino, SIET, NITEL and Kuhmo Group Esko Niskanen, STAResearch and Kuhmo Group
Erik Verhoef, VU University Amsterdam / Nectar Cluster 2

10:00 -11:30

Ken Small: "Urban Transport Demand Modeling: State of the Art" (Lecture 1)

11:30 -11:45

Coffee break

11:45 -13:15

Ken Small: "Urban Transport Supply Modeling: State of the Art" (Lecture 2)

13.15 -14.30

Lunch at Ducal Palace

14:30 -16:00

Richard Arnott: "Economic Theory of Transportation" (Lecture 3)

16:00-16:15

Coffee break

16:15-19:00

Nathalie Picard: "Discrete Choice Modeling: A Tutorial"

19:45

Social event

Tuesday, July 10th

Real Cities: Land Use, Dynamic Networks and Applied Modelling

09:00-10:30

Richard Arnott: "Theory of Transportation and Land Use" (Lecture 4)

10:30-10:45

Coffee break

10:45 -12:15

Alex Anas: "The Economics of Traffic Congestion and Urban Sprawl" (Lecture 5)

12:15 -13:30

Lunch at the Ducal Palace

13:30 -15:00

Alex Anas: "General Equilibrium Models of Transportation and Urban Land Use" (Lecture 6)

15:00-15:15

Coffee break

15:15-16:45

André de Palma: "METROPOLIS: An Applied Dynamic Discrete-Choice Transport Network Model" (Lecture 7)

16:45-17:00

Break

17:00-19:30

Fabrice Marchal: "METROPOLIS: A Tutorial"

20:30

Social event

Wednesday, July 11th

Real Markets and Policy: Industrial Organization, Market Power and Regulation

09:00-10:30

Jan K. Brueckner: "Economics of Airline Networks" (Lecture 8)

10:30-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-12:15

Simon Anderson: "Pricing of Transport Services" (Lecture 9)

12:15-13:30

Lunch at the Ducal Palace

13:30-15:00

Simon Anderson: "Two-part Tariffs in Transportation" (Lecture 10)

15:00-15:15

Coffee break

15:15-16:45

Erik Verhoef: "Principles of First-best and Second-best Regulation in Urban Transport" (Lecture 11)

16:45-17:00

Break

17:00-19:00

Final exam (for only those who wish to get credits) 

19:45

Wine Tasting

Program for the Conference

Pricing, Financing, Regulating Transport Infrastructures and Services

Thursday, July 12th

08:30-09:30

Registration

09:30 -09:45

Welcome and Opening
Edoardo Marcucci,
University of Urbino, SIET, NITEL and Kuhmo Group Esko Niskanen, STAResearch and Kuhmo Group
Erik Verhoef, VU University Amsterdam / Nectar Cluster 2

 

Parallel Sessions

09:45-12:00

Red Room
Investments, Financing and Evaluation - Part One

 

Alessandra Libardo  “Railway Megaprojects in Italy: financial and economicfeasibility problems”
Elise Boucq, Francis Papon
“Assessment of the real estate benefits brought by alight rail infrastructure, quantitative results from a hedonic approach with extensive field data in the Hauts-de-Seine department”
Vincenzo Salvatore Comito
“Why a very big number of projects in the transport sector do not meet their targets: the Italian case study”
Joel Maurice, Emile Quinet, Alain Sauvant
“Optimisation and decentralisation of investment programs”
Chairman Emile Quinet

09:45-12:00

Amaranto Room
Methodological – Part One

 

Moshe Ben-Akiva, Maya Aboud Zeid “Methodological Issues in Modeling Time-of-Travel Preferences”
Paolo Delle Site, Francesco Filippi, Marco Valerio Salucci
“Added value of consumer surplus integral as benefit measure in random utility models”
Mario Catalano, Barbara Lo Casto, Marco Migliore
“The urban transport demand modelling using the stated preference technique for estimating the economic feasibility of the car sharing service”
Edoardo Marcucci, Romeo Danielis, Guido Paglione
“Interactive choices in city logistics: innovative practices”
Chairman Romeo Danielis

09:45-12:00

Blue Room
Transport Pricing in Theory – Part One

 

Etienne B. de Villemeur “Acces Pricing for Mixed Users”
Loukas Dimitriou, Theodore Tsekeris
“Dynamic congestion pricing based on user-optimal stochastic learning models”
Stef Proost, Saskia van der Loo
“Implementation of Marginal Social Cost Pricing in a Federal State”
Erik Verhoef 
“Private roads: auctions and competition in networks”
Chairman Erik Verhoef

12:00-12:15

Coffee break

12:15-13:00

Red Room
Plenary Session

Keynote Speach  - The Honourable Cesare De Piccoli Vice Minister of Transport

13:00-14:30

Lunch at the Ducal Palace

14:30-16:00

Red Room
Plenary Session

Keynote Speach - Professor Ennio Cascetta,
University of Naples, "Federico II" - "The Campania Regional Metro System: a case study in transportation systems engineering"

16:00-16:30

Coffee break

 

Parallel Sessions

16:30-19:00

Red Room
Parking, Taxi and Other Markets

 

Marta Sánchez-Borràs, Andrés López-Pita, Paulo Fonseca Teixeira, Adrina Bachiller-Sana “Infrastructure charges for high-performance passenger services in Europe: A quantitative analysis”
Luigi Benefratello, Alberto Iozzi, Paola Valbonesi “Privatisation, regulation and productivity in the Italian motorway industry”
Angela Stefania Bergantino, Etienne B. de Villemeur, Ernesto Longobardi “The taxi market: failures and regulation”
Richard Arnott, John Rowse “Downtown Parking in Auto City”
Chairman Richard Arnott

16:30-19:00

Amaranto Room
Land Use and Space

 

Agostino Nuzzolo,  Pierluigi Coppola “Transport Accessibility and Spatial Distribution of Socio-Economic Activities”
Giuseppe Musolino “Land-use transport interaction modelling: application in a urban area”
Farideh Ramjerdi “Long-term effects and sustainability”
André de Palma, Nathalie Picard “Firms and jobs location in Ile-de-France: the role of accessibility and other determinants”
Alex Anas
“How sensitive is land use to transportation?”
Chairman Alex Anas

16:30-19.00

Blue Room
Transport Pricing in Theory – Part Two

 

Julie Bulteau “The choice between urban tax and tradable permit to obtain a sustainable mobility”
Joakim Ekström, Leonid Engelson, Clas Rydergren
“Decision support for finding locations and toll levels within congestion pricing schemes”
Giovanni Focardi “Pricing, Financing, Regulating Transport Infrastructures and Services: Are there any "industrial" best practices?”

Siriphong Lawphongpanich, Yafeng Yin “Pareto-Improving Congestion Tolls”
Edward Calthrop, Bruno de Borger, Stef Prost “Cost-Benefit Analysis of Transport Investments: Theory and Practice”
Chairman
Stef Proost

20:00

Gala Dinner

Friday, July 13th

09:30-10:30

Red Room
Plenary Session

Keynote Speach - Professor Kenneth Small,
University of California, Irvine, USA. - "Transport Economics: Impacts on Research and Policy"

10:30-10:45

Coffee break

 

Parallel Sessions

10:45-13:00

Red Room
Aviation

 

Marco Alderighi “Some considerations on the role of fences in duopolistic airline markets”
Achim I. Czerny
“Congestion management under uncertainty in a two-airport system”
Edoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta “Modelling airport and airline choice behaviour in a multiple airport region combining RP and SP data”
Antonio Danesi, Marino Lupi
“Spatial Concentration Analysis of Italian Domestic Air Transport Network”
Jan K. Brueckner
“Airport Noise Regulation, Airline Service Quality, and Social Welfare”
Chairman Jan K. Brueckner

10:45-13:00

Amaranto Room
Public Transport

 

Vincent van den Berg “Choice of season cards in public transport: an SP experiment” 
Mounia Moudjed
“Introducing performance indicators in the French Public Transport? From a approach by the Theories of Agency to a comparison with electricity and telecommunication public utilities”
Hazem Zureiqat
“Baumol's Cost Disease in Public Transit: Historical Evidence and Future Implications”
Francesco Ramella “Why (de)regulation matters: urban public transport in Great Britain (outside London) and continental Europe (main countries)”
Chairman Enrico Musso

10:45-13:00

Blue Room
Road Pricing in Practice

 

Mariano Gallo “Changing user percepionts of road costs to reduce private car use and road traffic externalities”
Petros Ieromonachou, James Warren, Stephen Potter “Supporting Policy Packages: The Future of Road Pricing in the UK”
Amanda Stathopoulos Blomberg
“Acceptance of road pricing between personal experience and political bias: The Stockholm trial”
Francis Cheung
“Road Pricing Initiatives in the Netherlands”
Chairman Francis Cheung

13:00 -14:30

Lunch at The Ducal Palace

14:30 -16:00

Red Room
Plenary Session

Keynote Speach - Professor Richard Arnott,
Boston College, USA - "Towards a Bathtub Model of Downtown Traffic Congestion"

16:00-16:15

Coffee break

 

Parallel Sessions

16:15-18:15

Red Room
Investments, Financing and Evaluation – Part Two

 

Diego Fernández Belmonte, Paulo Fonseca Teixeira, Andrés López Pita “Pricing of railway infrastructure in the EU: national diversity under Directive 2001/14/EC”
Eran Leck, Daniel Gat, Shlomo Bekhor
“Welfare Economic Impacts of Transportation Improvements in an Underserved Region”
Giorgio Ragazzi
“Financing Higways through tolls: lessons from the Italian experience”
Bruno De Borger, Stef Proost, Kurt Van Dender “Private Port Pricing and Public Investment in Port and Hinterland Capacity”
Chairman André de Palma

16:15-18:15

Amaranto Room
Methodological - Part Two

 

Guido Paglione “Inter-agency choice within discrete choice models: a review of methods”
Arpad Torok
“The possible role of mathematical optimization in urban planning”
Ida Kristoffersson, Leonid Engelson
“Implementation of Departure Time and Mode Choice Model with Travel Time Uncertainty”
Simon P. Anderson, Wesley W. Wilson
“Spatial Modeling in Transportation”
Chairman Simon P. Anderson

17:30

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