Dear Sir/Madam
We would like to invite your participation in the upcoming Kuhmo-Nectar
Conference on Transport Economics 2010, which shall take place 8-9 July 2010
in Valencia, Spain. Researchers in the area are invited to submit their
papers for this event. The conference is accompanied by a Summer School with
a faculty comprising a range of the most prominent researchers in transport
economics.
The aim of the Conference is to promote scientific excellence in the field
of transport economics and to provide a forum for stimulating scientific
exchange. As an applied field, transport economics intersects with a variety
of fields within economics such as microeconomics, public economics,
behavioural economics, transport engineering, econometrics, urban and
regional economics, political economy, labour economics, industrial
organisation, and more. Papers within all specialisations are welcome.
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, transport
investment and funding, congestion pricing, time and risk, agglomeration
effects, valuation of intangibles, aviation, competition, privatisation etc.
Selected papers will be encouraged for consideration as part of a special
issue of one of the top journals in the field, which we will negotiate with
journal editors. In addition, two awards will be presented at the
conference: one for the best paper by a senior researcher and another one
for the best paper by a junior researcher. There will be also special
sessions dedicated to specific topics which will be financed by a limited
number of grants. At this stage we are able to announce that there will be
some grants available for a special session on political economy of pricing
and investment.
The Conference is the first event organised by the International Transport
Economics Association. The Conference is the successor of two highly
successful series of conferences: the previous Kuhmo Nectar Conference
(Kuhmo, Finland 2006; Urbino, Italy 2007; Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2008,
Copenhagen, Denmark 2009) and the International Conference on Funding
Transportation Infrastructure (Banff, Canada 2006; Leuven, Belgium 2007;
Paris, France 2008, Minneapolis, USA 2009). The joint Kuhmo-Nectar
Conference on Transport Economics 2010 provides a venue for gathering the
world’s best within the field of transport economics.
The three-day Summer School is held on 5-7 July, just before the Conference.
It provides a condensed programme giving an introduction to academic
research in transport economics including recent advances. The faculty in
2009 included: Alex Anas, Richard Arnott, André de Palma, Mogens Fosgerau,
Amihai Glazer, Robin Lindsey, Nathalie Picard, Stef Proost, Kenneth Small,
Erik Verhoef and Anming Zhang. Participants are free to follow the summer
school, the conference, or both.
The Conference and the Summer School are hosted by the Department of
Economic Analysis and the Interdisciplinary Research Network on Social and
Economic Behaviour (ERI-CES) at the University of Valencia. The venue of the
conference is the Fundació Universitat-Empresa (ADEIT), located in the heart
of Valencia's historic downtown.
The conference and summer school website is: http://www.kuhmonectar.org
The website for submission of abstracts (Jan. 1 – April 2, 2010) is:
http://conferences.dtu.dk/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=40
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
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With kind regards, Kuhmo-Nectar Conference on Transport Economics 2010 and
Summer School
Pedro Cantos-Sánchez, chair of the Local Organizing Committee
and
The Conference Scientific Committee:
Mogens Fosgerau (chair), Technical University, Denmark
Pedro Cantos-Sánchez, Universitat de Valéncia, Spain
André de Palma, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France)
Robin Lindsey, University of Alberta, Canada
Esko Niskanen, STAResearch, Finland
Stef Proost, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Kenneth Small, University of California, USA
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