Road and Rail Financing Conference
Palais des Nations, Geneva - 25 February 2013
The conference pre-ITC Road and Rail Finance Conference was geared toward senior experts and took detailed stock of the results of the Euro-Asian Transport Linkages (EATL) Project and the progress made towards unified railway law.
Presentations
| Keynote speeches | |
| Economic Growth and Future Mobility - Eva Molnar (UNECE Transport Division) | |
| The EATL Multi-Country Investment Plan - Dimitrios Tsamboulas (Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece) | |
| Results of the study comparing maritime and land transport between Europe and Asia - Konstantinos Alexopoulos (UNECE Rail secretariat) | |
| Rail session presentations | |
| Unified law: dealing with two legal regimes - Cesare Brand (CIT) | |
| New Perspectives for International Rail Transport – Harmonised conditions to facilitate long distance rail traffic - Maria Sack (Unit International Associations European Transport Policy) | |
| Trends and challenges for railways - Jean-Pierre Loubinoux (UIC) | |
| Developing block trains from Asia to Europe - Ibrahim Cevik (TURKISH STATE RAILWAYS) | |
| Road session presentations | |
| Funding Transport with Land Values - Dave Wetzel (International Union for Land Value Tax) | |
| A Review of Revenue Sources for Roads and Highways - Caroline Visser (IRF) | |
| The IRU Model Highway Initiative - Igor Rounov (IRU) | |
| What ITS can bring to the table - Hermann Meyer (ERTICO –ITS Europe) | |
| The perspective of Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) Operators - Gilbert Konzett (Kapsch TafficCom AG) | |
| The concessionaires’ perspective - Richard Harris (Xerox) | |
| Plenary session presentations | |
| Public and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Funding of Transport Infrastructure – Best practices and common challenges - Dmitry Tvardovskiy (Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation) | |
| Is a transport infrastructure fund the way forward when transport policy favours railways? The case of Switzerland - Peter König (Federal Office of Transport, Switzerland) | |
| Is transport infrastructure fund the way forward? The experience of the Czech Republic - Tomas Cocek (State Fund for Transport Infrastructure) | |
| PPP in Roads and Highways and Financial Assessment of PPP Projects - César Queiroz (Roads and Transport Infrastructure Consultant) | |
| PPP Schemes and Railways - Jonathan Beckitt (CMS) | |
| Experiences with PPP in Rail Projects - Mukul Saran Mathur (Ministry of Railways, New Delhi, India) | |