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6th Florence Rail Forum. The Technical Pillar of the 4th Railway Package: Challenges for Standardisation and Interoperability
The 4th Railway Package is another step towards the European Commission’s vision of a Single European Railway Area and as such will contribute to reshaping the European railway sector. The 6th Florence Rail Forum will analyse and discuss one of the 4th Railway Package’s pillars, namely the technical pillar.
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5th Florence Rail Forum. Further Steps in Railway Liberalization: Market Opening and Tendering
Following previous discussion events on rail transport, we continue debating railway liberalisation in Europe. The current developments on the European level trigger the question how liberalization will evolve. Especially, they want to know which form competition will take: will competition be about access as was the original idea of the European Commission or will it rather evolve into tendering of various bits and pieces of the railway system?
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4th Florence Rail Forum. 20 Years of Rail Liberalization in Europe: Key Lessons and Future Prospects
Following previous discussion events on rail transport, we are now debating if the logic of liberalization followed by the European Commission fits the sector and whether it can be pursued unchanged or needs reconsideration.
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FSR Transport Policy Advisory Council
To conclude its 2014 activities, FSR Transport is hosting its Policy Advisory Council. It gathers representatives of all donors, and it provides suggestions to the Area Director concerning the Area’s working programme and financial plan.
The agenda of the day includes the following topics:
- Discussion on the Transport Chapter of the FSR Manifesto “An Agenda for the upcoming five years of regulation of infrastructures”
- Presentation of the report on the activities of FSR Transport in 2014
- Presentation of the planned activities for the year 2015 and discussion on the FSR Transport priorities
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FSR Transport Policy Advisory Council
To conclude its 2015 activities, FSR Transport is hosting its Policy Advisory Council. It gathers representatives of all donors, and it provides suggestions to the Area Director concerning the Area’s working programme and financial plan. The agenda of the day includes the following topics:
- Presentation of the report on the activities of FSR Transport in 2015
- Presentation of the planned activities for the year 2016
- Discussion on the FSR Transport priorities for the next 3 years
By invitation only.
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FSR Transport Policy Advisory Council
On March 20th FSR Transport will host its first Policy Advisory Council meeting, gathering the FSR Transport’s donors and representatives of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. In this occasione suggestions will be provided to the FSR Transport Director on:
- The activities of FSR Transport since its foundation in 2010
- The planned activities for the upcoming years 2012-2015
- FSR Transport priorities
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9th Florence Rail Forum. Discussing the 4th Railway Package: which role for markets in domestic rail passenger transport?
The fourth Railway Package was proposed in 2013 and forms part of a series of regulatory initiatives to create a more efficient and connected European rail sector. The six proposed legislative initiatives that the package is composed of will be the most important items on the European Commission’s agenda in the area of railways regulation. Several elements of the package have not yet reached a consensus by all parties and negotiations are ongoing.
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Workshop on Alignment and Performance in Network Industries
Both, institutions (i.e. rules of the game) and technologies matter in network industries. Their alignment (also called coherence) impacts performance. Based on previous discussion and work on the coherence framework and the co-evolution literature, this workshop aims at further developing research on the alignment between institutions and technologies in network industries.
The objective of the workshop is to:
- define a common terminology of the building blocks of the research concerning performance in network industries and alignment/coherence between institutions and technologies in network industries, and
- define an action plan for future research activities (case studies, yearly meetings, publications (special issue in a journal, edited book), MOOC, etc.).
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Workshop on Performance in Network Industries
The liberalization of network industries has significantly altered the environment in which the stakeholders interact. Requirements to deliver services at a given level and indicators against which providers are measured (KPIs) are becoming the norm. Such performance requirements are not only limited to the private firms that have entered the markets. Public firms also increasingly come under the scrutiny of their owners. Not only are they required to perform services of general interest they also need to improve service delivery on a regular basis. In addition, performance criteria – which tended to be limited to financial equilibrium – now include a multitude of aspects, including environmental concerns. Whereas performance increasingly features at the center of operators’ concern, there remains little agreement as to what it encompasses. For instance managers are typically interested in performance at an operational level (e.g., seeking to improve the technical efficiency) while policy makers are primarily interested in performance at an aggregate level (e.g., seeking to improve the performance of the industry as a whole). The workshop aims at investigating how the concept of performance is understood and implemented by the various actors (firms, regulators and governments) across sectors and across countries. We seek both theoretical and empirical papers, including case studies shedding light on how particular performance regime are designed and/or implemented. We are particularly interested in the relationship between technology and institutions and how this impacts the performance in the different network industries.
01 May 2011 Deadline for submitting extended abstracts of papers
15 September 2011 Deadline for submitting papers and presentations
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6th Florence Air Forum. Making effective use of technology in SESAR deployment
Following the usual format of the Florence School of Regulation, the 6 th Florence Air Forum aims at offering a platform to senior stakeholders from regulators, politics, operators, ANSPs, air carriers, airports, authorities, associations to discuss with prominent academics and to take stock of topics relevant to aviation regulation and policies. Relevant stakeholders such as Florian Guillermet (Executive Director of SESAR JU), Frank Brenner (Director General of Eurocontrol), and Maria Mas Rueda (SESAR Programme Manager at the European Defence Agency) already confirmed their participation.
The 6 th Florence Air Forum will take stock of the different interests in the Single European Sky (SES) and discuss how its governance can best accommodate the various interests at hand, while making the most effective use of SESAR deployment. Once implemented, the SES would create benefits for all actors involved. Yet, in the short run there are costs: costs for adapting to the new technology, as well as political costs resulting from the redistribution of power among the involved actors.
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Executive Seminar – Next Steps in Achieving the Single European Sky
The creation of a European Single European Sky (SES) is progressing slowly; worse, it is in gridlock. This Executive Seminar aims at bringing the discussions to a next level and gathering high-level decision-makers in the aviation sector to find the way forward on a number of key issues, such as SES 2+, performance, the 5th Pillar and Centralised Services.
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ECOMM 2014: Creating a bridge to a green, fair and prosperous mobility management
The Transport Area of the Florence School of Regulation is proud to announce that the 18th edition of the European Conference on Mobility Management (ECOMM) is going to take place in Florence from Wednesday, May 7th until Friday, May 9th.
This year, the annual meeting of the European Platform on Mobility Management – ECOMM 2014 Creating a bridge to a green, fair and prosperous mobility management aims at reflecting the possibility for Mobility Management to be a bridge towards new themes. Namely, it will focus on the possible answers to the following questions:
- new mobility concepts can pave the way for a broad introduction of e-mobility?
- creating a new awareness about options to reduce car dependent mobility amongst both developers and tenants can lead to better land usage and more people friendly public spaces and streets?
- considerations on an integration of Mobility Management in general transport policy can be major steps leading to a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan?
Furthermore, the ECOMM 2014 will be the chance to discuss the challenges stemming from the revision of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans announced by the European Commission in its latest Communication . ECOMM 2014 also aims at stressing the role of the local authorities and the interaction between the different levels of governance, in light of this latest Communication.
Every year, the objective of ECOMM is to disseminate, increase and exchange the knowledge about mobility management in Europe and beyond and to enhance the networking within the mobility management community. The conference is a chance to get in touch with experts and policy makers, and the Transport Area of the Florence School of Regulation is happy to support members of the academic community who want to join us and engage in the discussion.
To learn more about the initiatives of the Florence School of Regulation in the field of Urban Transport, please visit our dedicated web-page .
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