Summit and Events
Capacity to Grow: Transport Infrastructure Needs for Future Trade Growth
Corporate Partnership Board Report, Policy Insights,
8 May 2016
- Develop planning tools to adapt to uncertainties: Good port planning means planning for uncertainties.
- Increase port capacity by optimising existing terminals.
- Take a holistic planning approach to improving port capacity needs as part of the entire supply chain.
- Use funding as a balancing tool in port capacity development.
Establishing Mexico’s Regulatory Agency for Rail Transport
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
29 February 2016
- Any reform of the rail concessioning system must preserve the current high level of performance.
- Accept price discrimination to ensure efficiency, with the regulatory agency to adjudicate what prices are reasonable.
- Focus regulation on cases where effective competition does not already exist.
- Collect adequate financial and operating data on the rail companies as the basis for effective regulatory decisions.
- Consider cutting the cost of regulation by including an arbitration mechanism in any further regulatory reform.
- Consider inter-switching rules in any further regulatory reform.
- Interchange traffic rights should not be expected to be used for shippers to specify routes.
- Resource the new regulator with sufficient expertise to convince the courts that its decisions are sound.
Estimating Wider Economic Impacts in Transport Project Prioritisation using Ex-Post Analysis
Discussion Paper,
22 February 2016
Incorporating Wider Economic Impacts within Cost-Benefit Appraisal
Discussion Paper,
22 February 2016
Economic Impact Analysis of Terrorism Events: Recent Methodological Advances and Findings
Discussion Paper,
1 November 2008
The Potential of Economic Incentives to Reduce CO2 Emissions from Goods Transport
Discussion Paper,
27 May 2008
Responding to Increasing Port-related Freight Volumes: Lessons from Los Angeles/Long Beach and Other US Ports and Hinterlands
Discussion Paper,
1 March 2008
The Relationship Between Seaports and the Inter-Modal Hinterland in Light of Global Supply Chains
Discussion Paper,
1 March 2008
The Impact of Hinterland Access Conditions on Rivalry between Ports
Discussion Paper,
1 February 2008