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The 15th conference, marking 30 years since the inaugural conference was held in Thredbo (Australia), took place in Stockholm, Sweden. 220 delegates attended from 30 countries, across six continents. The conference series has a reputation for bringing academics together with practitioners in a series of intensive workshops to discuss the latest developments in competition and ownership in land passenger transport. 2017 marks the first year where the number of delegates was evenly split between academics on one hand and representatives from operators, regulators and consultants on the other. This was reflected in the rich discussions in each workshop which were reported back to the full conference. Other highlights included excellent plenary presentations from Mattias Landgren (State Secretary, Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, Sweden), Maria Kamargianni (Urban Transport and Energy Lab, UCL Energy Institute, London), and Iida Huhtanen (Finnish Ministry of Transport), and an engaging panel discussion on ‘Competition, cooperation and trust between actors in a deregulated transportation market’ with participants from the Swedish transportation sector.
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Current trends and innovations affecting the potential for a widespread adoption of electric buses - A comparative case study of 22 cities in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe
Published 2017-01-01Electric buses have environmental, economic, and health benefits, which many cities want to achieve by transitioning their fleets. However, the actual worldwide electric bus adoption is geographically uneven and limited ...Open AccessConference paper -
Accessibility and Uncertainty: the Option Value of Public Transport
Published 2017-01-01Are there option values of public transport services? A few studies have tried to answer this question through various stated preference methods but the question is so far unanswered. In this paper we set out to present ...Open AccessConference paper -
Public Transport Accessibility Needs Assessment Using Gaming Simulations
Published 2017-01-01Accessibility is a complex measure, defined as the ability to perform activities that are necessary or desired by the users of the system. While being difficult to quantify, it is currently recognised as an important measure ...Open AccessConference paper -
Public Transport Authorities’ Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Practice
Published 2017-01-01Given the Swedish national goals for transport and infrastructure, economic efficiency is essential also in public transport operations. In 2003, Ljungberg (2007) sought to answer to which extent PTAs use Cost-Benefit ...Open AccessConference paper -
Accessibility and Social Welfare: A study of the City of Johannesburg
Published 2017-01-01Within the corpus of accessibility measures is the Net Wage After Commute which describes the potential wage earnable less the transport costs incurred to commute to work from a particular location. This paper explores the ...Open AccessConference paper