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SUMMARY:Market-based approaches applied to transportation issues: the Heav
 y Vehicle Fee - a Swiss success story
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Ms Franziska Borer Blindenbacher\nVarious countries have meanw
 hile adopted market incentives to meet transport needs in an economically 
 efficient way. The seminar will touch on different types of approaches for
  financing passenger and freight transportation\, and for addressing trans
 portation-related externalities. There will be a special emphasis on the u
 nique Swiss Heavy Vehicle Fee (HVF)\, which will serve as an example of th
 e practical and political issues that need to be addressed in order to imp
 lement sustainable national transportation policies. The objectives of thi
 s seminar are to encourage students to familiarize themselves with a range
  of transportation and related environmental\, social and economic policy 
 issues and to develop an understanding of the complexity\, inter-connectio
 n and potential resolution of some of these issues.\nBio: Franziska Borer 
 Blindenbacher is an economist and works as an international consultant and
  teacher in the fields of transport\, spatial planning and the environment
 . She also works part-time as a scientific adviser for the Swiss Federal O
 ffice for Spatial Development (ARE). Among her clients in the public and p
 rivate sector are the Canadian\, the US as well as the Swiss Ministry of T
 ransportation\, the Swiss Association for Public Transportation\, PostAuto
  Switzerland\, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (IT
 DP) in New York and Washington DC\, and the European Institute for Sustain
 able Transport (EURIST) in Hamburg. Ms Borer Blindenbacher was part of the
  team that developed and implemented the distance- and emission-related he
 avy vehicle fee (HVF) in Switzerland as well as the federal coordinating t
 ransportation infrastructure and spatial development in metropolitan areas
 . Ms Borer Blindenbacher is the author of various publications in the fiel
 d. Among them the case study From an Integral Transport Concept to Financi
 ng Urban Transit - The Swiss Approach (2008). Further the Study of Methods
  of Road Capital Cost Estimation and Allocation by Class of User in Austri
 a\, Germany and Switzerland (2007). She teaches at different national and 
 international academic institutions such as the George Washington Universi
 ty in Washington DC and the University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Swit
 zerland (HSR) in Rapperswil.
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