Papers presented at the Fourth IMPRINT-EUROPE Seminar
"Implementing Pricing Policies in Transport: Phasing and Packaging"


Session I: Welcome and Overview
Hugh Rees (European Commission, DG TREN) Developments in EU Policy (Presentation)
Ueli Balmer (Deputy Head Transport Policy Section Federal Office for Spatial Development - Switzerland) "Practice and experience with implementing transport pricing reform in heavy goods transport in Switzerland" (Paper)
Erik Verhoef (Free University of Amsterdam) "Phasing and packaging of pricing reform - The MC-ICAM approach" (Paper)

IIA Key issues in rail, air and water transport
Nicole Adler et al. (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "Barriers to efficient cost-based pricing of rail, air and water transport infrastructure in Europe" (Paper)
Katalin Tánczos and Gyula Farkas (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) "Railway infrastructure charging in Hungary. Key implementation issues" (Paper)

IIB Key issues in urban transport and interurban road
Esko Niskanen (ITS - University of Leeds) "Identifying implementation paths for marginal cost pricing in urban transport and on interurban roads" (Paper)

Robin Lindsey (University of Alberta, Canada)		 Road pricing issues and experiences in the US and Canada" (Paper)


Session III: Implementation paths in practice: modelling results

IIIA Interurban road, rail, air and water transport
Dirk Henstra et al. (TNO Inro) "Marginal cost pricing implementation paths in interurban transport - Evaluation of welfare effects" (Paper)
Inge Mayeres and Stef Proost (Katholieke University of Leuven) "Reforming transport pricing: an economic perspective on equity, efficiency and acceptability" (Paper)

IIIB Urban transport
André de Palma et al. (adpC) "Implementation of marginal cost pricing in pransport – Integrated conceptual and applied model analysis" (Paper)
Lars-Göran Mattsson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) "Modelling pricing reform in Stockholm" (Paper)


Session IV: Policy Implications
Chris Nash and Esko Niskanen (ITS - University of Leeds) "Policy conclusions from MC-ICAM" (Paper)
M.W. Dings et al. (CE Delft, Solutions for environment, economy and technology) "Returns on roads - Optimising road investments and use with the 'user pays principle'" (Paper)
Richard Arnott Policy implementation problems in other sectors


Session V: Political acceptability
Jens Schade and Bernhard Schlag (Dresden University of Technology) "Acceptability of pricing reform" (Paper)
Amihai Glazer (University of California, USA) "How to make unpopular policies popular after
adoption" (Paper)
Tommy Gärling (Göteborg University, Sweden) "A note on households´ adaptation of their private car use to congestion pricing schemes"


Session VI: The way forward
Stephen Perkins (ECMT) Using research to inform implementation (Presentation)