All Transport
Major Transport Infrastructure Projects and Economic Development
Roundtable Report,
24 December 2014
Impacts of Expanding Airport Capacity on Competition and Connectivity
Case-Specific Policy Analysis,
1 December 2014
Efficiency in Railway Operations and Infrastructure Management
Presentation, slides, speech,
18 November 2014
Case Study ProRail: Understanding the Drivers of Railway (in)Efficiency
Presentation, slides, speech,
18 November 2014
Rail Efficiency: Cost Research and its Implications for Policy
Presentation, slides, speech,
18 November 2014
Appraising Transformational Projects: The Case of the Grand Paris Express
Case-Specific Policy Analysis,
1 November 2014
The Competitiveness of Ports in Emerging Markets: The Case of Durban, South Africa
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
1 November 2014
- Create an inter-departmental freight unit within the city of Durban that can bundle expertise and act as a one-stop shop for freight-related issues in the city. This unit could act as a vehicle to improve coordination on freight transport and engage in joint planning, aligning various actors including Transnet, SANRAL, the national and provincial departments of Transportation and the various departments within the city of Durban.
- Increase the autonomy of TNPA and streamline decision-making procedures within Transnet. This includes more financial autonomy, e.g. by creating a separate fund at the disposal for TNPA for port infrastructure and maintenance.
- Focus performance indicators on the performance of the whole supply chain. Currently much focus seems to be on part of the picture (e.g. crane productivity) without much consideration for (and sometimes even at the detriment of) other indicators.
- Undertake a comprehensive environmental port impact study and implement green-port mitigation policies if necessary
Expanding Airport Capacity: Competition And Connectivity
Case-Specific Policy Analysis,
1 November 2014
Institutional and Political Determinants of Private Participation in Infrastructure
Presentation, slides, speech,
27 October 2014
Renegotiation of Transportation Public-Private Partnerships: The U.S. Experience
Presentation, slides, speech,
27 October 2014
Soft Budgets, Renegotiations and Public-Private Partnerships
Presentation, slides, speech,
27 October 2014
Renegotiations: How to Approach them and Economic Outcomes
Presentation, slides, speech,
27 October 2014
Causal Inference for Ex-Post Evaluation of Transport Interventions
Presentation, slides, speech,
14 September 2014
Permanent Observatories as Tools for Ex-Post Assessment: the French case study
Presentation, slides, speech,
14 September 2014
The National Audit Office’s Value for Money Assessment of Transport Investments
Presentation, slides, speech,
14 September 2014
Examen par les pairs du développement du fret ferroviaire au Mexique
Research Report,
1 February 2014
Major Transport Infrastructure Projects and Regional Eonomic Developments - Assessment and Implementation
Presentation, slides, speech,
1 December 2011
Moving Freight with Better Trucks
Research Report, Policy Insights,
18 April 2011
- The freight transport task is growing rapidly in most regions and requires effective utilisation of all modes of transport.
- The safety and environmental impacts of road haulage require regulatory intervention for optimal outcomes.
- Compliance can be improved greatly through legislation that assigns responsibility.
- Compliance regimes can be enhanced by exploiting technological innovations.
- A performance based approach to regulation offers the potential to meet community objectives for road freight transport more fully.
- Many higher capacity vehicles have equivalent or even better intrinsic safety characteristics in some respects than most common workhorse trucks.
- Truck crash energies mean safety regulation must pay particular attention to managing truck speeds and driver alertness and impairment.
- Higher capacity vehicles have potential to improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions.
- Higher capacity vehicles can result in fewer vehicle-kilometres travelled.
- The lower unit costs offered by higher productivity trucks could result in increased overall demand for road freight transport and a transfer of freight from other modes.
- Road pricing systems can be developed to manage use of the transport network more efficiently.
- Road infrastructure and trucks need to be developed in concert.
- Significant opportunities for improvement of the regulation of heavy trucks have been identified.