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SI G-E3 on Transport Econom ic Regulation

Marco Ponti, Paolo Beria, Francesco Ramella

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Presentation of SIG-E3 on Transport Economic Regulation

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RESEARCH CENTER ON TRANSPORT POLICY LABORATORIO DI POLITICA DEI TRASPORTI

SI G-E3 on Transport Econom ic Regulation

SIG on Transport Economic Regulation WCTRs and SIG

The World Conference on Transport Research Society has been recently re-organised into TOPIC AREAS and SESSION TRACKS. Some of the TRACKS do not exist only during the conferences, but organise activities continuously. They are called SIGs, Special Interest Groups and should work as “mini”-societies

• A. Transport Modes: General
• B. Freight Transport and Logistics
• C. Traffic Management, Operations and Control
• D. Activity and Transport Demand
• E. Transport Economics and Finance
• F. Transport, Land Use and Sustainability
• G. Transport Planning and Policy
• H. Transport in Developing and Emerging Countries

SIG E1 SIG E3

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SIG on Transport Economic Regulation Topics of SIG

 The SIG-E3 on Transport Economic Regulation focus on

• …all relevant aspects of economic regulation (regulatory

mechanisms, pricing, unbundling, access, essential facilities regulation, independent regulators, etc.),

• for the main transport modes (railways, air transport and maritime

transport, highways, local public transport),

• on both sides of infrastructure and services regulation

Scholars Regulators Regulated

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 In order to have realistic goals, the SIG have initially focused mainly on transport infrastructures regulation, leaving the services regulation to the next future (now?)

SIG on Transport Economic Regulation The first focus

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Status Structure

 CHAIR

Marco Ponti, Politecnico of Milan  MANAGEMENT COMM. Paolo Beria, Politecnico of Milan Francesco Ramella, Istituto Bruno Leoni

 SCIENTIFIC COMM.

Kenneth Button, George Mason University (USA) Yves Crozet, University of Lyon (France) Gines De Rus, Universidad de Las Palmas (Spain) Andreas Kopp, World Bank (Germany) Rosario Macario, Instit. Sup. Técnico Lisbon (Portugal) Chris Nash, University of Leeds (UK) Emile Quinet, ENPC (France) Eddie Van de Voorde, University of Antwerp (Belgium) Jose Viegas, Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon (Portugal)

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Status Facts and figures

 130 participating scholars + mailing list of approx 500 regulated companies (rail and road) and regulators. New contacts are increasing. Present contacts come from Europe, North America, Africa, Australia.  A website has been created and recently totally renewed: http://www.transregulation.polimi.it/

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Projects “Body of knowledge”

 A first activity of SIG-E3 has been the collection of literature on transport infrastructure regulation  The “body of knowledge” (available on the website) has been structured as follows:

• General theory : overview of the main theoretical models on infrastructure

investment, charging and access pricing; attention is also given to topics of lobbying, privatization. These models provide general regulatory tools, as they also cover other infrastructure sectors other than transport (e.g. water, electricity).

• Transport theory : theoretical models transport-oriented, with a focus on the

various regulatory tools (e.g. PPP. yardstick competition, price cap...) and on the political aspect of regulation.

• Policy
• Case studies
• Empirical models : a list of papers using econometric techniques.

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Projects The database on transport infrastructure regulation

 A second, long term activity promoted by SIG is the constitution of a database on transport infrastructure regulation.

• open,
• independent,
• web based,
• “low cost”...

 The survey focuses on economic regulation within the transport sector. It considers the four main transport mode (highways, railways, ports, airports) and it is structured into three parts dealing with:

• general aspects
• regulatory aspects
• regulatory institutions

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Projects The database on transport infrastructure regulation

 Databases include not only the regulation description, but also a short list of top interest bibliographical references provided by collaborators.  The first two parts of the survey has been carried out in 2013 and 2014:

• data related to the highways and railways sector have been collected for 20

countries: Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey and United States.

• Data collected have been submitted to academic experts for external review

 The results of the survey have been published in two papers:

• Laurino, A., F. Ramella, P. Beria (2015), The economic regulation of railway

networks: a worldwide survey, Transportation Research Part A, 77, 202–212

• Beria, P., F. Ramella, A. Laurino (2015), Motorways economic regulation: A

worldwide survey, Transport Policy, 41, 23–32

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Projects Special Issue of Transport Policy

 We edited a special issue of Transport Policy on “Economic regulation

• f transport infrastructures”, including eleven selected papers

Paolo Beria, Marco Ponti, Francesco Ramella. Introduction: Economic regulation of transport infrastructure, theory and practices Nicole Adler, Peter Forsyth, Juergen Mueller, Hans-Martin Niemeier. An economic assessment of airport incentive regulation Enzo Defilippi. X-factor regulation in a developing country: The case of Lima's airport Paolo Beria, Francesco Ramella, Antonio Laurino. Motorways economic regulation: A worldwide survey Alain Bonnafous. The economic regulation of French highways: Just how private did they become? Meng Xu, Susan Grant-Muller, Ziyou Gao. Evolution and assessment of economic regulatory policies for expressway infrastructure in China Branislav Bošković, Mirjana Bugarinović. Why and how to manage the process of liberalization of a regional railway market: South-Eastern European case study Claudio Ferrari, Francesco Parola, Alessio Tei. Governance models and port concessions in Europe: Commonalities, critical issues and policy perspectives Omid M. Rouhani, H. Oliver Gao, R. Richard Geddes. Policy lessons for regulating public–private partnership tolling schemes in urban environments Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel, Xavier Fageda. When supply travels far beyond demand: Causes of oversupply in Spain's transport infrastructure Rosário Macário, Joana Ribeiro, Joana Duarte Costa. Understanding pitfalls in the application of PPPs in transport infrastructure in Portugal

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Conferences

 Kickoff meeting (Italy) in 2009 involving scholars, regulators and regulated firms  Special session (“Transport Economic Regulation”) during the 2010 WCTRS conference in Lisbon  Special session (“Highways Economic Regulation: A Worldwide analysis”) during the 2013 WCTRS conference in Rio de Janeiro  Special session (“Transport and public choice”) to be held during the 2016 WCTRS Conference in Shangai

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What is next? Our challenges

After some years, we want and need to renew the structure, the mode of work and extend the scope of the SIG.

• renew the Scientific Committee
• create an active and compact intermediate operative group, possibly

made of younger researchers, in strict and continuous contact

• extend the geographical scope (more outside EU)
• extend the activities  local groups, more conferences, more network

research, a COST, ...

• manage the Shanghai conference, including the Special Issues
• launch new activities (new Special Issues? Start working on

services?...)

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• 1. Boards

 Candidates for the New Scientific Committe? TASKS: Meet during the conferences, revise the scientific contents, provide

• pportunities like Special Issues, “spell the gospel”, promote networking,

chair the sessions at WCTR, etc.  Candidates for the Management Board? TASKS: Organise things, keep the group alive, edit she SIs, maintain the mailing list.. No newsletter! Glory and eternal recognition awaits you!

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• 2. Conferences

 The SIG wants to organise conferences, sessions, workshops. Realistically:

• One periodic workshop (yearly)
• Participation to WCTR conferences with a “branded” session

Less realistically:

• Organisation of a full yearly conference
• Participation to other conferences with “branded” sessions
• Organisation of summer schools and student workshops.

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• 3. Shanghai WCTR

 need for chairs and for associates participating at the debate  we are already managing the review process of the 30 papers received  two journals will publish the papers:  plus the selected proceedings:

Transportation Research Procedia Research in Transportation Economics Journal Of Rail Transport Planning & Management

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New activities for the future...?

 Go on with the Database (air and ports still lacking)?  Extension to Services?  Start to think to a broader research? (COST? H2020?) All members can propose and possibly manage new activities  How to publish and finance the Database and other researches?

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Feedbacks are welcome!!!! marco.ponti@polimi.it paolo.beria@polimi.it francesco.ramella@gmail.com