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EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF TRANSPORT
TRANSPORT AND SPATIAL POLICIES: THE ROLE OF REGULATORY AND FISCAL INCENTIVES
Lack of co-ordination between transport and spatial policies has negatively influenced the effectiveness of both areas to date. The Round Table on Transport and Spatial Policies: The Role of Regulatory and Fiscal Incentives identified how isolated policy measures have curtailed the effectiveness of efforts in both of these areas.
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ROUND TABLE
The Round Table discussed ways to overcome the lack of co-ordination between transport and spatial policies. Integrated planning procedures have to successfully deal with the departmentalisation of policymaking at all jurisdictional levels. The negative consequences of jurisdictional competition have to be avoided by co-ordination between communities. The Round Table formulated proposals on how fiscal incentives can help to avoid the failure of interjurisdictional co-ordination.
TRANSPORT AND SPATIAL POLICIES: THE ROLE OF REGULATORY AND FISCAL INCENTIVES
Anticipated growth in transport volumes means addressing greater environmental damage and congestion, and increasing investment for the expansion of infrastructure capacity. Transport policies in general and urban transport policies in particular will have to find new ways of satisfying demands for both accessibility and lower levels of mobility. Achieving this requires recognition of the interdependence between transport and spatial policy, and the design of institutions which would take account of the synergies and trade-offs in both fields.
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ECONOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE
REPORT OF THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOURTH ROUND TABLE ON TRANSPORT ECONOMICS held in Paris on 7th-8th November 2002 on the following topic:
TRANSPORT AND SPATIAL POLICIES: THE ROLE OF REGULATORY AND FISCAL INCENTIVES
EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF TRANSPORT
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EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF TRANSPORT (ECMT)
The European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) is an inter-governmental organisation established by a Protocol signed in Brussels on 17 October 1953. It comprises the Ministers of Transport of 43 full Member countries: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, FRY Macedonia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. There are seven Associate member countries (Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand and the United States) and one Observer country (Morocco). The ECMT is a forum in which Ministers responsible for transport, and more specifically the inland transport sector, can co-operate on policy. Within this forum, Ministers can openly discuss current problems and agree upon joint approaches aimed at improving the utilization and at ensuring the rational development of European transport systems of international importance. At present, ECMT has a dual role. On one hand it helps to create an integrated transport system throughout the enlarged Europe that is economically efficient and meets environmental and safety standards. In orde