Deregulation of Freight Transport : Report of the Eighty-Fourth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 1-2 February 1990

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Deregulation of freight transport is of vital importance to transport policy in the move towards a European market. This publication assesses past experience with deregulation in a number of countries and reviews ways and means of making the freight transport market truly efficient. INTRODUCTORY REPORTS -- Deregulation of Freight Transport by Maurice Bernadet, France -- Introduction -- Deregualtion of inland transport in various European countries -- The problem of deregulation at European level -- Limitations of any analysis of competition in terms of (De)regulation -- Notes and references -- Deregulation of Freight Transport by Sergio Bologna, Italy -- Introduction -- The role of the state and regulation in italy during the Fascist era -- Post-war reconstruction and regulation in the 1970s -- The existing situation and an scenario for the future -- Reorganisation of the state railways, and intermodal services -- Conclusions -- Figures -- Deregulation of Freight Transport by Hellmuth St. Seidenfus, Germany -- Introduction -- Markets for freight services -- The procedure adopted for the effect analysis -- Effects on the reference markets -- Conclusions for transport policy -- Concluding remarks -- Annex: Goods Classification for the Transport Statistics of the Federal Statistics Office -- SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS -- LIST OF PARTICIPANTS