The Overall UNITE Methodology. UNITE (UNIfication of accounts and marginal costs for Transport Efficiency), project funded by 5th Framework RTD Programme, Deliverable 1.

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Sansom, T. Nellthorp, J. Proost, S. Mayeres, I. Maibach, M. Niskanen, E. Quinet, E. & Schwartz, D.
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Abstract

The UNITE project is designed to support policy-makers in the setting of charges for transport infrastructure use - by providing appropriate methodologies and empirical evidence. The purpose of this report is to advance and prioritise subsequent methodological and empirical developments in the project, in particular: • by separating the policy issues of primary interest from those of secondary importance to the project; and, • by identifying which technical issues can be closed down at this stage, and which should remain open at this stage. The report begins by setting out recent and ongoing initiatives at the European and national levels, before a discussion of the types of uses to which transport cost and charging information may be put. Chapter 2 concludes by separating the policy issues of central relevance to UNITE from secondary issues. Using this prioritisation to structure the subsequent analysis, Chapter 3 highlights the linkages between policy needs and the UNITE outputs. Various general technical issues arise, for example are existing transport accounts an adequate basis for UNITE, and what level of disaggregation is required in the UNITE information. As far as possible, these issues are closed down in this report, in order to maximise the potential for productive work in subsequent stages of UNITE. Detailed discussion of the accounts and marginal cost technical issues is postponed to Chapters 4 and 5. Having clarified the role of the accounts and marginal cost components of UNITE in these chapters, Chapter 6 then identifies the role for the `integration' component of the project. UNITE is structured so that these three streams of research - accounts, marginal costs and integration - can proceed in parallel, however, the integration stream has a unique role in bringing the other components together (the `Unification' in the project title). To conclude, Chapter 7 - "Outline of the Overall UNITE Methodology" - provides a brief resume of the definition of ideal accounts, pilot accounts, marginal cost and integration activities within UNITE. (Author/publisher) For other reports in the UNITE project, see http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/projects/unite/

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Leeds, University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies ITS, 2000, III + 33 p., 16 ref.

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