This Round Tables examines various aspects of indicators for evaluating transport output. It examines the needs of policy makers and planners, the design of indicators, integration of indicators, the possible indicators available, and the use of indicators.

Both personal mobility and freight traffic are increasing in our societies. At the same time, the quality of our lives and our environment now becoming matters of vital concern is impaired in many ways by transport related disamenities: noise, pollution, vibration and visual intrusion. Such...

Counter-cyclical policy relates to short-term measures taken by governments to flatten out the peaks and depressions of the trade cycle. Transport can be affected by such policies in several ways. Chapter I of this report deals with the general form of trade cycles and the aims and instruments...

This paper analyses the degree to which infrastructure reliability and urban economic activity in several African cities is impacted by flooding. It combines firm-level micro data, flood maps, and several spatial data layers across cities through a harmonized geospatial network analysis. The...

This Round Table examines the integration of transport plans, regional and national economic and social development plans and plans regarding the physical distribution of population and economic activities, account being taken of technological developments and of constraints due to sociological,...

As the countries of Central and Eastern Europe undergo radical economic upheavals, the question of pan-European transport is brought very sharply into focus. The transport system cannot be viewed simply in terms of the volume of traffic moving from one particular place to another but must be...