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| | Centre for Regional and Transport Economics (CERTE), Dept. of Economics - University of Kent |
 | | The Centre provides an MSc in European Economic Integration as part of the graduate programme of the Department of Economics and contributes to the MA in European Integration of the Kent Centre for Europe, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Kent. | | | The Centre has wide interests in research on economic integration in Europe, is also responsible for administration of the MSc in European Economic Integration and contributes to the Kent Centre for Europe, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Kent. | | | Professor Vickerman was a member of SACTRA (Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment) of the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (1996-1999) for its major report on Transport and the Economy. |
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http://www.kent.ac.uk/economics/research/certe.html
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| | Transport in South East Europe |
| | Establishing adequate transport networks in South East Europe (SEE), linked to and compatible with the trans-European networks is a joint objective of the countries of region, and constitutes part of their efforts to integrate in the political and economic mainstream of Europe. | | | The basis for the definition of the Core Network has been set by the strategy paper Transport and Energy Infrastructure for South Eastern Europe, which was issued by the European Commission in 2001. | | | See full text of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Development of the South East Europe Core Regional Transport Network (as signed), June 11, 2004 |
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http://www.seerecon.org/infrastructure/sectors/transport
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| | TPOL Center Home |
| | Air transport is the fastest growing mode of transport for passengers and freight and is expected to play a significant role in Europe's future economic development and political integration. | | | The GSA-commissioned study looks at transport activities in a variety of federal agencies, describes the diverse set of transportation requirements for each agency, and recommends areas for possible improvement-- including the benefits and drawbacks of e-commerce, procurement methods, and new metrics for government. | | | Button's September 2005 issue, "The Economics of Full Cost Recovery in Transport" includes a particularly timely set of papers given the financial state of AMTRAK, the numerous bankruptcies of airlines, and the problems of funding road investment as the revenues from gasoline taxes decline. |
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http://www.gmupolicy.net/transport2003
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| | European Telework Online - Trans-European Networks (TEN) |
| | There are separate programmes for Transport (enhancing the networks of road, rail and air links across Europe), Energy (for example pipelines for transmission of gas, oil and electricity within Europe and across the European boundaries, and (of course) Telecommunications. | | | The framework will be expected to support European networks of call centres/service centres offering employment near home in both urban and rural areas; European networks of business centres offering teleworking facilities to business travellers; and new work organisation in European enterprises with a dispersed workforce. | | | Generally, the private sector is assumed to provide the majority of the capital cost of TEN projects, with the public sector playing an enabling and facilitating role and leveraging the risk and funding through vehicles such as the European Investment Fund. |
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http://www.eto.org.uk/rtd/rtd_ten1.htm
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| | The Europe - Asia Meeting (ASEM) - Chairman's statement Of the Asia-Europe Meeting |
| | The Meeting agreed that intensified science and technology cross-flows between Asia and Europe, especially in priority driving sectors such as agriculture, information and communication technology, energy and transport, are important for strengthening the economic links between the two regions. | | | Europe, on the other hand, is a major market in the world for goods, investments and services, even more so since the completion of the Single Market, Opportunities thus exist for both regions to expand the market for goods, capital equipment and infrastructure development projects, and to increase the flows of capital expertise and technology. | | | A Meeting of Government and Private Sector Working Group would be convened in Thailand to draw up within six months an Asia-Europe Investment Promotion Action Plan to promote greater cross-flows of investment between Asia and Europe. |
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/asem/asem_summits/asem1.htm
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| | Going Trans-European: Planning and Financing Transport Networks for Europe, by Mateu Turró |
| | Without adequate measures in the transport sector to cope with the increase of trade and mobility associated with the development of the Single Market, European integration will stagnate. | | | After a discussion of the political and financial difficulties of implementing TENs, he makes some pratical proposals regarding the interaction between European institutions and the Member States vis-à-vis the new transport infrastructure policy. | | | He pays particular attention to the transport implications of both the accession to the EU of Central and Eastern European countries and of the strengthening of the links with the Mediterranean neighbours. |
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http://goingtens.turro.lu
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| | ROSETTA - Work Area 1: Passenger Transport Services - Executive Summary |
| | As public transport is subsidised throughout Europe, major investments always require a political backing; with responsible authorities rather reluctant to invest in unproven benefits, that even do not generate any direct returns. | | | Further activities in the field of passenger transport services should concentrate on basic research, performed by research bodies, consultancies, industry and local administration on one hand and technology demonstration in the responsibility of industry, operators and administration on the other. | | | Passenger transport services (PTS) cover every system or support service to help travellers moving from an origin to a destination. |
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http://www.trg.soton.ac.uk/rosetta/workareas/1_pts/pts_exec.htm
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| | Passenger Rail Transport > Transportation Section > Open Directory > 1800miti.Com |
| | Freight Europe UK Ltd - Specialising in rail transport logistics between the UK and Europe via the Channel Tunnel, using conventional wagons. | | | Europe on Rail - Eurail and Britrail passes, Eurostar, Eurorail reservations and point to point tickets. | | | VR Cargo - VR Cargo is the rail freight division of the Finnish Railways VR Ltd, the biggest and leading transport company in Finland. |
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http://www.1800miti.com/league/page400tr.html
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| | Passenger Rail Transport > Transportation Section > Open Directory > 1800miti.Com |
| | Freight Europe UK Ltd - Specialising in rail transport logistics between the UK and Europe via the Channel Tunnel, using conventional wagons. | | | Europe on Rail - Eurail and Britrail passes, Eurostar, Eurorail reservations and point to point tickets. | | | VR Cargo - VR Cargo is the rail freight division of the Finnish Railways VR Ltd, the biggest and leading transport company in Finland. |
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http://www.1800miti.com/league/page400tr.html
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| | Spanish Data Navigator |
| | ISPA: EU contributes more than Euro 1.1 billion to transport and environment projects in the Central and Eastern Europe candidate countries in 2001 | | | Going trans-European: Planning and Financing Transport Networks for Europe | | | Intermodality and Intermodal freight transport in the european Union - A Systems approach to freight transport - strategies and actions to enhance efficency, services and sustainability |
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http://www.mcrit.com/espon
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| | Greener future for European transport networks? |
| | BirdLifes own assessment of the transport development plans in 10 accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe showed that no less than one in five Important Bird Areas (IBAs) may be threatened by new or up-graded roads, rails and waterways. | | | So far the vision of EU decision-makers has been to build up of a dense network of motorways, high-speed railways and shipping canals to make it easier to transport good and persons across Europe - with little thought given to environmental concerns. | | | The process of revising the guidelines for the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T) will start again this year, after an aborted attempt in 2002. |
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http://www.birdlife.net/news/news/2003/04/trans_europe_transport.html
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| | Internet / IP Backbone : Fiber Optic Networks : Wholesale Bandwidth Providers |
| | Broadcasting Center Europe, with its TSL (Telecom Solutions Luxembourg) department, offers to all of them tailor-made solutions based on 20-year experience and high-end IT & Telecom infrastructure. | | | As a Telecom operator in Luxembourg, BCE provides a wide range of transport means for data, voice and video with various bandwidth from 64 kbps to 1 Gigabit, based on cable infrastructure (fiber, cupper) and/or wireless links. | | | Europe News: Marconi implements optical highway comms network in Germany (Telematics Update) |
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http://www.onelasvegas.com/wireless/Internet_Backbone_Providers.html
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| | Trans-European Transport Networks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Networks are a subsidiary part of a larger vision for a wider range of Trans-European Networks (TENs) first outlined in a European Parliament 1993 White Paper on growth, competitiveness, and employment; the transport network is known as TEN-T. | | | The Trans-European Transport Networks are a planned set road, rail, air and water transport networks designed to serve the entire continent of Europe. | | | A decision to adoped Ten-T was made by the European Parliament and Council in July 1996, and as a result of this, the EU works to promote the networks by a combination of leadership, coordination, issuance of guidelines, and the funding of aspects of development through a series of projects. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-European_Transport_Networks
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| | SYMPOSIUM ON TRANS-EUROPEAN AND PAN-EUROPEAN TRANSPORT NETWORKS |
| | Ministers from all countries in Europe, euro-deputies, delegates from the European Commission, international funding organisations and transport sector representatives reviewed issues regarding the completion of Pan-European and Trans-European transport network infrastructures, as well as the effective incorporation of their functional features in the European Transportation System. | | | It was furthermore stressed that railways were in the centre of the new policy and that they were expected to play a significant role in the European transportation system. | | | The Symposium Toward the integration of Trans-European and Pan-European Transport Networks, which was jointly sponsored by the Greek Transport Ministry and the European Parliament, concludes in Brussels today. |
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http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=345410
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| | International Air Transport Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The International Air Transport Association is an international trade organization of airlines headquarted in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. | | | At its founding, IATA had 57 Members from 31 nations, mostly in Europe and North America. | | | The European Union's competition authorities are currently investigating the body. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Air_Transport_Association
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| | Institute for Transport Studies Research Overview |
| | ITS research is funded from a number of sources including UK Research Councils, The Department for Transport, The European Union, The Highways Agency and the rail and bus industries. | | | A substantial proportion of the research is conducted in collaboration with other institutions; recent partners have included numerous universities in the UK and Europe, several transport planning consultancies and a number of UK planning authorities. | | | ITS is one of the world’s largest academic centres for Transport research and has consistently been awarded the highest possible rating for the quality of its work. |
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http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/research
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| | The Paris Metro (subway) System |
| | Sized like an ordinary credit card, this pass represents a technological breakthrough for public transportation. | | | Formerly known as the Syndicat des Transports Parisiens (STP), this organization — created in 1959 — is responsible for planning all public transport in Ile-de-France. | | | This is the transportation authority's site, where you can obtain up-to-the-minute information on all aspects of public transport in Paris. |
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http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Paris/Paris_metro.shtml
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| | GWU - General Workers' Union <online> |
| | Zarb, who was concluding the seminar Making Sense of Europe, argued that the trade unions should follow the example of employers who have set up an office in Brussels which they were using to defend their interests. | | | They went on to say that if the government goes on to introduce such measures that would mean more workers laid off besides a drastic decrease in the purchasing power thus leading to the crippling of an already deteriorated national economy. | | | He remarked that wage rates are the only cause that affects competitiveness but are just one of the many loops in the chain of the cost of production. |
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http://www.gwu.org.mt
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| | History of Light Rail |
| | Local authorities were charged with developing plans for integrated transport systems, and a funding mechanism was put in place for significant central government contribution towards the cost of major public transport infrastructure projects. | | | After trials in France and Germany, this is now the favoured solution for making trams fully accessible, and over 2000 low-floor cars have been delivered or ordered for European systems. | | | Trams and light rail can cover the whole spectrum of public transport provision, and international experience of 350 systems worldwide confirms that this is the most successful intermediate mode, with over 100 years of development behind it, yet incorporating the latest technology for the future. |
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http://www.lrta.org/mrthistory.html
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| | BUND für Umwelt und Naturschutz - BUND Verkehr |
| | Transport policy in the EU consists of many factors: the Trans-European transport Networks and the EU Cohesion and Regional Policy and their financial Instruments play the most important roles. | | | With regard to transport policy 2004 has seen some very important events: The adoption of the TEN-guidelines, the EU-enlargement and the proposal for the new regulation of the EU-Structural and Cohesion Funds. | | | The TEN-T are supposed to smoothly carry the increased number of goods and passengers through the enlarged Europe. |
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http://www.bund.net/verkehr/themen/themen_41/themen_114.htm
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| | BUND für Umwelt und Naturschutz - BUND Verkehr |
| | The TEN-T are the backbone of Europe’s transport infrastructure, arteries which are supposed to carry about one half of all the passenger and freight transport in the EU. | | | The Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T) The Trans-European Networks are laid down in Art. | | | To better coordinate these projects between the countries a European coordinator can be set up and the member states are encouraged to coordinate their planning, evaluation and public consultation procedures. |
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http://www.bund.net/verkehr/themen/themen_41/themen_115.htm
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| | Nice Transportation travel: Maps, Air, Bus, Ferry, Train, History, France - Provence Beyond |
| | The Nice International Airport is the second largest in France, with direct flights to America, Britain and the rest of Europe. | | | The main rail line goes east to Monaco, Menton, Italy and the rest of Europe. | | | Ave Thiers: up Ave Jean Médecin and left at the overpass. |
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http://www.beyond.fr/villages/nicetrans.html
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| | transport of london |
| | Having accumulated sufficient air miles for two tickets to Europe, the questions now were where and when to go and also whether to use public transportation......(Continue Reading) | | | Transport for London - London Underground, … Mayor of London, the London Assembly and the Greater London AuthorityGetting London Moving, © Transport for London. | | | … Transport for London (TfL) is responsible for the transport system of London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. |
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http://www.boat-transport-express.com/transport-of-london.html
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| | Gas prices too high? Try Europe. csmonitor.com |
| | "European consumers are very sensitive to fuel economy and sophisticated about engine options," says Lew Fulton, a transport analyst with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). | | | On average, 60 percent of the price European drivers pay at the pump goes to their governments in taxes. | | | Colombier's pain is shared by drivers all over Europe, where fuel prices are the highest in the world: a gallon of gas in Amsterdam now costs $7.13, compared with just $2.61 in America. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0826/p01s03-woeu.html
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| | France: Transport |
| | and check all of the various train options, timings and costs on rail travel within Europe. | | | Our budget is good but we obviously want to spend as little as possible on accomodation (within reason) so we can eat more!!!! | | | For two traveling together with unlimited rail use for the three of you it would cost $2845, assuming your daughter is age 4-11. |
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http://experts.about.com/q/140/3373605.htm
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| | NewsFlash 8/2003 |
| | At a Conference, held in the European Parliament on October 15, and attended by MEPs, Senior Commission Officials, AMRIE Members, Regional Politicians and Officials from across Europe, including many from the pre-Accession States, AMRIE launched a wide-ranging discussion on the linked issues of regional policy, trans-European transport policy, and environmental policy. | | | The main theme will be: the Trans-European Transport Networks, viewed from the standpoints of a series of stakeholders. | | | of TENs-T. It is proposed that a series of priority projects, which will cost a total of 220 billions , should be declared as of European interest. |
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http://www.amrie.org/news_flash/nf_03_8.htm
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| | International Transportation Information |
| | - The Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds University is responsible for the planning, design, operation and use of land transport facilities in Europe and in developing countries. | | | Its tasks include: (1)To organize, execute and assess technological research and development concerned with the improvement of the means and systems of transport and of traffic from technical, economic and social viewpoints.(2)To carry out evaluative and advisory studies within these domains. | | | - Transport Research conducts traffic and transport research in the areas of freight transport and logistics, environmental impacts of traffic, traffic safety, and traffic engineering and modes. |
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http://transweb.sjsu.edu/europe.htm
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| | International Transportation Information |
| | - The Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds University is responsible for the planning, design, operation and use of land transport facilities in Europe and in developing countries. | | | Its tasks include: (1)To organize, execute and assess technological research and development concerned with the improvement of the means and systems of transport and of traffic from technical, economic and social viewpoints.(2)To carry out evaluative and advisory studies within these domains. | | | - Transport Research conducts traffic and transport research in the areas of freight transport and logistics, environmental impacts of traffic, traffic safety, and traffic engineering and modes. |
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http://transweb.sjsu.edu/europe.htm
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| | Biographies of Presenters Participation About the Symposium Community foundations: Symposium on a global movement |
| | Between 1989- 1994 she was the Equality and women's officer of the amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union in Ireland. | | | She has worked in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and in Palestine on civil society development programmes and on the establishment of grant-making programmes. | | | She is now a Leading Specialist at the Department of Business Development, for the Commercial Bank 'Automobile Banking Centre' in Togliatti. |
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http://www.cfsymposium.org/about_participation_bios.html
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