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Call for Papers

TRANS-TALK 2nd. Workshop

Brussels, 6 - 8 November 2000

Many thanks to those people who have already submitted abstracts in response
to our earlier mailing about the 2nd. TRANS-TALK workshop. For others who
may be interested in proposing a paper at the workshop, there is still time
before the closing date of 25th AUGUST. Details of how to propose a paper
are given below and we look forward to receiving your suggestions.

TRANS-TALK is a thematic network supported under the European Union Fifth
Framework Thematic Programme, Competitive and Sustainable Growth, which is
focusing on transport policy, programme and project evaluation
methodologies. Its objective is to bring together transport researchers,
professionals and policy-makers who have worked on the development of these
three topics, in different settings, to discuss commonalities and
differences, and with a view to developing a framework for their
integration. Further details are available at the TRANS-TALK web-site:
http://www.iccr-international.org/trans-talk/.

This notice invites papers as contributions to the second of the three
TRANS-TALK workshops. The second workshop is concerned with outstanding
problems in project evaluation methodologies and the links between
evaluation at the project and the programme level of assessment. Problems
will be exemplified through presentations on specific themes and through
case studies on issues such as road pricing and infrastructure assessment in
the context of Trans-European Networks. An outline programme for the
workshop may be accessed at the TRANS-TALK web-site.

The workshop will be held at the Hotel Metropole in central Brussels.
Authors of accepted papers will join a group of 50 or so leading researchers
and practitioners for the workshop, and will have their travel expenses and
subsistence paid.

Contributions are now invited that address one or more of the themes below
from the perspective of whether existing methodologies are fundamentally
constrained, or whether they can be extended to address new challenges posed
for evaluation. Papers, which may be theoretical or empirical, should bring
out conceptual arguments that help towards the establishment of clear
guidelines to match different assessment methods with different situations
and how to integrate the results of the different methods. Perspectives may
include cost-benefit analysis, multi-criteria analysis, scenario planning,
systems analysis, or any of the more process-oriented views of evaluation.

*   Transport and economic development

    How to identify and evaluate the impacts that transport investment
or policy changes may have on patterns of economic development at European
and other levels, exposing spatial redistribution of activity, and avoiding,
for example, double-counting.

*   Social exclusion and distribution/equity

    What aspects, if any, of social exclusion are legitimately seen as
consequences of transport sector decisions? At what physical scale of
analysis does it become appropriate to measure and evaluate exclusion? What
indicators of social and spatial equity are feasible and appropriate to use
in project and programme evaluation?

*   Involving stakeholders in the evaluation process

    How can evaluation become more open, transparent and accountable to
the final users of transport systems? What forms of participation would be
appropriate to involve stakeholders in the evaluation process? What
evaluation methodologies are consistent with stakeholder involvement?

*   Environmental evaluation - CVM/SP

    How close are we to being able to include all environmental impacts
in cost-benefit analysis? How reliable are the estimates of impact value and
what estimation procedures are preferred? Are strategic environmental impact
assessments consistent with project-level evaluation procedures?

*   Network effects and European value added

    What impacts of major schemes are potentially overlooked if
individual member states simply evaluate them at a national level? How, in
practice, can network effects at the European level be modelled and
evaluated? To what broader EU policy goals might such schemes contribute
that are not captured in typical evaluations and how can these contributions
be evaluated?

*   Welfare basis of evaluation

    What are the unstated but significant implications of using
cost-benefit analysis or multi-criteria analysis as a basis for project
evaluation? Does either truly have the capacity to fulfil the
socio-political role expected of it? Are these ways of evaluating acceptable
at programme of policy levels?

*   Time, term and uncertainty

    Do current evaluation procedures adequately address uncertainty? Are
the methods used to aggregate impacts over time acceptable in the context of
strategic transport planning?

In addition, contributions are invited for two parallel sessions that will
explore, respectively, evaluation of the costs and benefits of alternative
pricing policies, and evaluation in the context of Trans-European Networks.

Authors are invited to submit a 2-page abstract by Friday 25th. August 2000
to: Professor Alan Pearman, Institute for Transport Studies, University of
Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. E-mail:  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
mailto:[log in to unmask] Phone: +44-113-233-4489; Fax: +44-113-233-4465.
The preferred method of submitting abstracts/papers is via e-mail. Abstracts
should include the author's affiliation and address with e-mail, phone
and/or fax number.

Acceptance will be notified no later than Friday 15th. September and final
drafts of papers must be submitted no later than Friday 27th October 2000.
Papers should be written in English and should normally be in the range 5000
- 10,000 words. It is anticipated that selected papers from the workshop
will be published in book form.

In planning their contributions, authors are requested to access the
following web-page on the TRANS-TALK
web-site:www.iccr-international.org/trans-talk/conclusions-ws1. Here are
listed a selection of the issues that arose at the first TRANS-TALK
workshop, held in May 2000. In order to integrate the top-down approach of
the first workshop with the bottom-up approach of the second, we request
that authors should identify and address in their papers any of these issues
that are relevant to their selected theme.

For further details about TRANS-TALK, please contact Dr Liana Giorgi, The
Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences
(ICCR), Schottenfeldgasse 69/1; AT-1070 Vienna. Phone: +43.1.524 13 93; Fax:
+43.1.524 13 93-200; e-mail: [log in to unmask]


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