Rail
Local Governments and Ports
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
23 May 2017
- Develop tailor-made governance arrangements for ports.
- Allow decentralised port governance to create additional benefits for local communities.
- Coordinate public port investment, nationally and where possible at a supra-national level.
- Ensure that ports not only focus on profits, but also take local impacts into account.
Strategic Infrastructure Planning: International Best Practice
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
23 March 2017
- Systemic risks can be reduced where projects form part of a broad and long-term strategic plan.
- Strategic infrastructure planning carries its own risks, including technology's influence on demand- and supply-side considerations.
- When it works well, strategic planning can set out a stable set of priorities for future investment with durable cross-party support.
- A successful infrastructure planning process balances a stable framework with maintaining flexibility.
- The planning process requires clear objectives, a degree of independence and an open, collaborative approach.
- The planning methodology needs to address risks and uncertainties, take into account binding policy constraints and include considerations of pricing the use of infrastructure.
- A top-down approach to infrastructure planning to complement traditional project by project assessment is essential to a strategic assessment of long-term economic infrastructure needs across sectors.
- Infrastructure planning across sectors can help identify the most important systemic risks early.
- Using analytical methods such as a scenario-based approach to analysis can be helpful in future-proofing infrastructure plans.
- It is important to consider how demand for scarce infrastructure can be managed. Debt management need to be part of any strategic investment plan.
- A top-down approach could foster the development of an analytical framework for investment decisions reflecting both demand and supply side considerations.
Ex-Post Assessment of Transport Investments and Policy Interventions
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
27 February 2017
- Data collection for evaluation needs to be planned for from the outset.
- Audit transport projects throughout the project stages
- Use independent organisations to carry out audits of transport projects.
- Recognise the variety of economic goals targeted by transport investments.
- Involve local partners in providing evidence on performance.
Public Private Partnerships for Transport Infrastructure: Renegotiation and Economic Outcomes
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
23 February 2017
- Use renegotiation of PPPs only in exceptional cases.
- Use an independent jury to assess whether the outcome of a PPP is what parties might have been expected to negotiate had they foreseen a change that has occurred.
- Consider to task an independent body with determining when renegotiation of a PPP is legitimate.
- Include reputation and demonstrated competence in selection criteria for a PPP.
- Compare advantages and weaknesses of PPPs versus other forms of private capital.
Quantifying the Socio-economic Benefits of Transport
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
20 January 2017
- Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) guidelines can be expanded to include reliability and some wider impacts.
- Further research into reliability benefits is needed to improve confidence in results.
- Wider economic impacts should be examined in cases where they are expected to be significant.
- Further research into the impacts and tools for capturing wider impacts is needed.
- Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) can play an important role in decision making, but need not dominate.
Airport Demand Forecasting for Long-Term Planning
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
6 July 2016
- Use quantitative methods to analyse the key drivers of airport demand.
- Use expert guidance to help interpret the quantitative results.
- Quality-assure the analysis and counter the risks of optimism bias.
- Reflect the risks and uncertainties that arise in even the best forecasts.
- Make better use of demand forecasts in airport infrastructure planning.
Model of ECMT Certificate of Compliance of a Trailer of TPLW not Exceeding 3.5 Tonnes with the Technical Safety Requirements
Guidelines/User Guide,
1 January 2015
Model of Certificate of Compliance with Technical Provisions Concerning Exhaust and Noise Emissions and Safety Requirements for “EURO IV/4 Safe", "EURO V/5 Safe", "EEV Safe" or "EURO VI/6 Safe" Motor Vehicle (Lorry) of TPLW above 3.5 and not Exceeding 6 T
Guidelines/User Guide,
1 January 2015
КОНТРОЛЬНЫЕ ПРОЦЕДУРЫ для грузовиков с МРГВ свыше 3,5 тонн и не более 6 тонн начиная с 1 января 2015 года
Guidelines/User Guide,
1 January 2015
Control Procedures for Vehicles with TPLW above 3.5 and not Exceeding 6 Tonnes as from 1 January 2015
Guidelines/User Guide,
1 January 2015
Air Service Agreement Liberalisation and Airline Alliances
Case-Specific Policy Analysis,
1 December 2014
L’évaluation des projets transformationnels: Le cas du Grand Paris Express
Case-Specific Policy Analysis,
11 November 2014
Examen par les pairs du développement du fret ferroviaire au Mexique
Research Report,
1 February 2014
Дополнительная Информация К Статье 3.16 Руководства Пользователя Многосторонней Квотой ЕКМТ, 2014
Guidelines/User Guide,
1 January 2014
Дополнительная Информация к Руководству пользователя Многосторонней квотой ЕКМТ
Guidelines/User Guide,
1 January 2014
Article 3.15 and 3.16 – Provision Relating to Transit Through the Country of Registration
Guidelines/User Guide,
1 January 2014
Complementary Information to Article 3.16 of the User Guide on ECMT Multilateral Quota, 2014 and Control Procedures for Vehicles with tplw from 3.5 to 6 tonnes as from 1 January 2014
Guidelines/User Guide,
1 January 2014
The Model Certificate of Roadworthiness Test for Motor Vehicles and Trailers
Guidelines/User Guide,
1 January 2014
Model Certificate of Compliance of a Trailer with the Technical Safety Requirements
Guidelines/User Guide,
1 January 2014
Better Regulation of Public-Private Partnerships for Transport Infrastructure
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
24 September 2013
- A mix of financing models spreads risks.
- A dedicated budget for PPPs, set in relation to the rate at which future liabilities will be accumulated, can provide such a limit.
- Explicit consideration of alternative financing arrangements should be employed in determining whether to proceed with PPP projects.
- It is recommended that governments require PPP projects to pass tests of affordability and to clear the hurdle rates of return generally applied to publicly financed transport projects.
- The expected cost of PPP projects should take account of cost inflation resulting from the propensity for projects to be renegotiated.
- At the individual project level, risks should be assigned to the party best able to manage them, along with rights to make related decisions.
- Assigning demand risk is not straightforward and risk sharing arrangements are therefore common.
- Continuity of resources and expertise is essential for addressing strategic behaviour and optimism bias more generally.
- Regulatory agencies are well placed to ensure transparency and accountability by publishing reports on the criteria employed to make decisions and publishing contracts.