ITEA Annual Conference and School 2018

ITEA Conference and School 2018

ITEA is pleased to announce that the ITEA Annual Conference and School on Transportation Economics (“Kuhmo Nectar”) will in 2018 be hosted by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. The events will be in June 25-29, 2018.

The aim of the annual ITEA School is to provide young researchers a high quality introduction to academic research on transport economics, including many recent advances in the field. The School’s program consists of a series of lectures and tutorials; all faculty members are among the most prominent researchers in transport economics. The aim of the annual ITEA Conference is to promote scientific excellence in the field of transport economics and to provide a forum for scientific exchange. Research presented at the Conference covers both theory and empirical work, it includes all transport modes, and it allows a wide range of research methodologies. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, transport pricing and investment, competition policy, transport decisions under uncertainty, agglomeration effects, valuation of intangibles, privatization, the economics of new transport technologies, the political economy of transport decisions, etc.

See the conference website here.

ITEA Annual Conference and School 2017

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The 2017 Annual Conference and School of the International Transportation Economics Association, ITEA, was held in Barcelona, Spain, June 19-23. The events were hosted by the Institut dEconomia de Barcelona (IEB) at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Universitat de Barcelona. The chair of the Local Organizing Committee was Professor Anna Matas.

The two and a half-day School was held on June 19-21, just before the Conference. The School were attended by 42 students from all over the world.

The Conference was held on June 21-23. There were 133 papers presented at the Conference. In addition, the Conference was proud to present keynote lecture by Professor Jacques Thisse on “What Can TE Learn from Spatial Economics” and The International Transport Forum (ITF) plenary sessions on “Air Connectivity” presented by Professor Anming Zhang and Dr. Guillaume Burghouwt, and on “Agglomeration and Wider Economic Benefits” presented by Professor Tony Venables and Professor Daniel Graham.

The venue for the keynote lecture by Professor Jacques Thisse was provided by Abertis, the international market leader in the management of toll roads. The session was chaired by Professor Bruno de Borger, as Chair of the Conference Scientific Committee.

ITEA Keynote Lecture 2017

Much of the transport economics literature has focused on the welfare economics of transport decision making, leading to many valuable insights on pricing, investment, network design, and regulation of transport services in a second-best world. However, the feeling is that many policy prescriptions of transport economists have been ignored or, at the very best, have been accepted with delays of several decades. Therefore, the profession has recently also taken a less normative view on decision making, emphasizing the role of the political process in shaping transport policy. This Special Issue calls for high quality papers that contribute to our understanding of the political economy of transport decision making. Read more

Jan K. Brueckner

It is honor to serve as the third president of the International Transportation Economics Association (ITEA). While the Association is still young, its future is bright. Our annual conference has become the premier venue for presentation of economics-oriented transportation research, and the Association’s journal, Economics of Transportation, is steadily gaining a reputation as a top-quality outlet for work in the area. It is becoming a home for meritorious papers previously scattered across a variety of economics journals and transportation outlets read mainly by noneconomists, providing a needed focal point for the field.

Another major contribution is the Association’s excellent school. Held in conjunction with the annual conference, the school helps to broaden the training of young researchers working in transportation economics while fostering professional connections crucial to launching and sustaining a productive career. The week devoted to the school and conference provides an exceptional environment for learning and cross-fertilization, and it provides a model for other branches of the profession to follow.

As president, my hope is expand the Association’s membership and to further increase the visibility and size of the conference by spreading the word about its quality. In addition, I will strive to help the editors of Economics of Transportation consolidate and expand the gains they have achieved in the number and quality of submissions, a goal that all Association members can advance by submitting their own work and encouraging their graduate students to do the same.

The Association is poised to further strengthen its contributions to the field of transportation economics, and we can all be excited to be part of this process.

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ITEA Annual Conference and School 2018

ITEA Annual Conference and School 2017