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GRACE FINAL CONFERENCE

Crowne Plaza Brussels Europa
Rue de la Loi 107

AGENDA

Wednesday 5 December

 

Session 1:   Chair Chris Nash

09.30

Welcome: Frederick Rasmussen (DGTREN, Project Officer)

09.40

Overview of GRACE (Chris Nash, ITS, Leeds)

10.00

The Development and Use of Transport Accounts (Heike Link)

10.45

Tea/Coffee

 

Session 2: Chair Gunnar Lindberg

11.15

Optimal complexity in pricing (Peter Bonsall, ITS, Leeds)

12.00

Modelling the Impacts of Pricing Reforms  (Stef Proost, KUL)

12.45

Lunch

 

 

Session 3:  Chair Heike Link 

14.15

The GRACE Software Tool (Andrea Ricci, ISIS)

15.00

Round Table discussion including Gunnar Lindberg, VTI, and Eddy van der Voorde, UA, Andrea Ricci and Chris Nash

15.30

Tea/Coffee

 

Session 4:  Chair Frederick Rasmussen

1545

Use of results from EU research in policy formulation on transport pricing
(Huib van Essen)

16.30 Outstanding Issues and Closing remarks (Chris Nash, ITS, Leeds)
19.30 Conference Dinner

Thursday 6 December

THE POLICY IMPLICATIONS

 

09.00

Registration

  Session 1:   Chair Chris Nash
09.30

Introduction  (Bryan Matthews, ITS, Leeds)

09.40 EC Perspective ( DG TREN speaker)
10.00

Using Transport Accounts (Heike Link, DIW)

10.20 Deriving Charges using the GRACE Software Tool (Andrea Ricci, ISIS, Rome)
10.40

Optimal Complexity (Peter Bonsall, ITS-Leeds)

11.00

Tea/Coffee

 

Session 2: Chair: Andrea Ricci

11.20 The Impacts of Pricing Reforms (Stef Proost, KUL)
11.40 Overall Policy Conclusions (Chris Nash, ITS, Leeds)
12.00

Round Table discussion, including

 

International Transport Forum representative
Huib van Essen, CE-Delft

12.45 Closing comments Frederick Rasmussen (Project Officer) Chris Nash (Co-ordinator)
13.00 Sandwich lunch is available for delegates