ECONOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF TRANSPORT PARIS 1994 ECONOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE REPORT OF THE NINETY-FOURTH ROUND TABLE ON TRANSPORT ECONOMICS held in Paris on 5th-6th November 1992 on the following topic: REGIONAL POLICY, TRANSPORT NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF TRANSPORT THEEUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF TRANSPORT (ECMT) The European Conference of Ministers ofTransport (ECMT) is an inter-governmental organisation established by a Protocol signed in Brussels on 17th October 1953. The Council ofthe ConferencecomprisestheMinistersofTransportof30Europeancountries.1 TheworkoftheCouncilof MinistersispreparedbyaCommitteeofDeputies. ThepurposesoftheConferenceare: a) to take whatever measures may be necessary to achieve, at general or regional level, the most efficient use and rational development ofEuropean inland transport ofinternational importance; b) to co-ordinate and promote the activities ofinternational organisations concerned with Europeaninlandtransport,takingintoaccounttheworkofsupranationalauthoritiesinthis field. Thematters generally studiedbyECMT- and on whichthe Ministerstake decisions - include: the general lines oftransport policy; investment in the sector; infrastructural needs; specific aspects of the development ofrail, road and inland waterways transport; combined transport issues; urban travel; road safety and traffic rules, signs and signals; access to transport for people with mobility problems. Othersubjectsnowbeingexaminedindepthare: thefutureapplicationsofnewtechnologies,protection oftheenvironment,andtheintegrationoftheEastEuropeancountriesintheEuropeantransportmarket. Statisticalanalysesoftrendsintrafficandinvestmentarepublishedeachyear,thusthrowinglightonthe prevailingeconomicsituation. The ECMT organises Round Tables and Symposia. Their conclusions are considered by the competentorgansoftheConference,undertheauthorityoftheCommitteeofDeputies, sothatthelatter mayformulateproposalsforpolicydecisionstobesubmittedtotheMinisters. TheECMTDocumentation CentremaintainstheTRANSDOCdatabase, whichcan beaccessed on-lineviathetelecommunicationsnetwork. For administrative purposes, the ECMT Secretariat is attached to the Secretariat ofthe OrganisationforEconomicCo-operationandDevelopment(OECD). t. Austria,Belgium,Bosnia-Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Croatia,theCzech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,Finland,France, Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Italy,Latvia,Lithuania,Luxembourg,theNetherlands,Norway,Poland,Portugal,Romania, theSlovakRepublic, Slovenia,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,andtheUnitedKingdom. (AssociateMembercountries: Australia,Canada,Japan.NewZealand,theRussianFederationandtheUnitedStates. Observercountries: Moldova,Morocco.) Publieenfrancaissousletitre: POLIT1QUESREGIONALES, RESEAUXDETRANSPORTETCOMMUNICATIONS TABLERONDE94 ©ECMT, 1994 ECMTpublicationsaredistributedbytheOECDPublicationsService, 2,rueAndre-Pascal,75775PARISCEDEX 16,France Applicationforpermissiontoreproduceortranslate allorpartofthispublicationshouldbemadeto: ECMT 2,rueAndre-Pascal,75775PARISCEDEX16,France PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS The ECMT Round Table 94, which focused on links between regional policies, transportnetworksandcommunications,wasorganisedjointlybyECMT and the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry of the OECD, in particular by Working Party No. 6 on Regional Development Policies (Industry Division). Held in Paris on 5 and 6 November 1992, the Round Table brought togetherregionalpolicy makers and experts in transportandcommunications (see list of participants on page 131). TABLE OF CONTENTS GERMANY BLUM, U(cid:9) 7 FRANCE PLASSARD, F(cid:9) 31 POLAND DOROZIK, L(cid:9) 85 SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS (Round Table debate on reports) (cid:9) 113 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS (cid:9) 127 GERMANY Ulrich BLUM Technical University ofDresden Dresden Germany INTEGRATION OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONSIDERATIONS IN TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS POLICIES ESPECIALLY IN PERIPHERAL AREAS SUMMARY ABSTRACT (cid:9) 11 1. INTRODUCTION (cid:9) 11 2. PERIPHERY AND INTEGRATION: HIERARCHIES AND DEVELOPMENT (cid:9) 13 2.1. The Theoretical Model (cid:9) 13 2.2. Policy-adaptive Strategies (cid:9) 14 COMPETITION AND HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT . 15 3.1. Optimal Hierarchies for the Train Service (cid:9) 15 3.2. A Typology of Competition for High-speed Railway Systems 15 3.3. Competition and Common Carriage (cid:9) 16 3.4. Co-operation and Competition: The Modal Aspect (cid:9) 17 SOME RECENT EXPERIENCES (cid:9) 17 4.1. High-speed Access to the Five New Lander (cid:9) 17 4.2. Poland and Czechoslovakia: New Peripheries? (cid:9) 21 4.3. The Balkan States, the Iberian Peninsula and their Access to Europe (cid:9) 21