History of Events 2005-2019

The local organizers for ITEA Conference and School 2005-2019 have been:

Staresearch, Finland, in 2005 and 2006
University of Urbino, in 2007
VU University of Amsterdam, in 2008
TU University of Copenhagen, in 2009
University of Valencia, in 2010
Centre for Transport Studies of the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), in 2011
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin, in 2012
Transportation Center at Northwestern University, in 2013
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) at the Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Toulouse, with the support of Institut D’Economie Industrielle (IDEI), in 2014
Institute of Transport Economics — Norwegian Centre for Transport Research (TOI), in collaboration with the Department of Economics at the University of Oslo (UiO), in 2015
Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile, in 2016
Institut dEconomia de Barcelona (IEB) at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Universitat de Barcelona, in 2017
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in 2018
Paris School of Economics (PSE), in 2019

ITEA Conference in 2020 will be organised as webinars through Zoom. The dates of the webinars are June 4, June 10, June 16, and June 22. The webinars will be organised by the Toulouse School of Economics. There will be no ITEA School in 2020.

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.

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.