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Based on a detailed empirical study, this paper argues that regional liberalization of trucking services has had an important effect on transport costs and tariffs for Zambia's economy. Zambia is a peculiar example in Southern Africa as it benefits from relatively low transport costs compared with other landlocked countries in Africa. This is mainly because of competition between Zambian and other regional, mainly South African, operators and because of South African investments in Zambia's trucking industry. As a result, the costs of operators registered in Zambia and South Africa are similar. The study also demonstrates that enhancing trucking interoperability in Southern Africa would significantly impact positively the Zambian trucking industry's competitiveness. The main measures to significantly increase trucking competitiveness in the region would more likely derive from reducing fuel costs in Zambia, improving border-post operations, and relaxing South African truck import rules.

Freight --- Fuel --- Fuel costs --- Road --- Road Transport --- Road Transport Market --- Road Transport Services --- Routes --- Transport --- Transport costs --- Transport Economics, Policy and Planning --- Transport Policy

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July 2000 - This guide to the issues at stake when toll roads are privatized answers many questions that privatization teams and regulators should be asking-providing useful information to project specialists, many of whom are now learning how much they did not know when they started. Road transport has long been the dominant form of transport for freight and passenger movement throughout the world. Because most road projects require investments with long amortization periods and because many projects do not generate enough demand to become self-financing through some type of user fee or toll, the road sector remains in the hands of the public sector to a much greater extent than other transport activities. But governments throughout the world, including those of many poor African and South Asian countries, are commercializing their operations to cut costs, improve user orientation, and increase sector-specific revenue. There seems to be demand for toll roads in specific settings, but the problems met by many of this first generation of road concessions-from Mexico to Thailand-have given toll projects a bad reputation. Many mistakes were made, and tolling is obviously not the best solution for every road. Most of the alternatives aim at improving efficiency (lowering costs). But there are many ways of getting the private sector involved in toll roads, thus reducing public sector financing requirements for the sector. Understanding the context in which toll roads are viable is essential both for their initial success and for effective long-run regulation. Estache, Romero, and Strong provide a broad overview of issues at stake from the viewpoint of both privatization teams and regulators responsible for supervising contractual commitments of private operators and the government, to each other and to users. This paper-a product of Governance, Regulation, and Finance, World Bank Institute-is part of a larger effort in the institute to increase understanding of infrastructure regulation. The authors may be contacted at aestache@worldbank.org or jstrong@worldbank.org

Arterial Roads --- Costs --- Demand For Road Transport --- Freight --- Highway --- Highway Systems --- Investments --- Piers --- Rail --- Road --- Road Projects --- Road Sector --- Road Transport --- Toll --- Toll Road --- Toll Roads --- Traffic --- Transport --- Transport Activities --- Transport Economics, Policy and Planning --- Urban Roads --- Vehicles

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This report identifies a number of ways towards an evolution in road freight transport regulation within the ECMT Member countries taking into account the enlargement of the European Union, the integration of environmental considerations and the level of taxation within the transport sector. It provides a spotlight on the main avenues towards a transformation in road freight transport regulation in Europe.

Freight and freightage -- Law and legislation -- Europe. --- Freight and freightage. --- Road Transport. --- Trucking -- Law and legislation -- Europe -- Congresses. --- Trucking -- Law and legislation -- Europe. --- Trucking --- Law - Non-U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Law - Europe, except U.K. --- Law and legislation --- Road haulage --- Transportation, Automotive --- Truck freight --- Trucking industry --- Freight --- Freight and freightage --- Road Transport

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This Round Table examines the structure and performance of the road haulage industry, whether there are any economies of scale within it, and the influence of demand on its structure and operations.

Transport --- Transportation, Automotive --- Economies of scale --- Economic specialization --- Business & Economics --- Transportation Economics --- Specialization, Economic --- Economics --- Division of labor --- Economies of size --- Increasing returns --- Scale, Economies of --- Size, Economies of --- Big business --- Costs, Industrial --- Diminishing returns --- Automotive transportation --- Highway transportation --- Motor carriers --- Motor transportation --- Road transportation --- Automobiles --- Social aspects --- 656.1 --- 656.1 Road transport --- Road transport

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This book looks at the latest advances in autonomous driving, demonstrating that a future once considered science fiction is now close at hand. Acceptance of driverless cars relies on more than just the technology that delivers it; in this book the authors consider the shift in attitudes required for social acceptance and a move towards considering cars one aspect of a wider mobility solution. In addition, a clear demand is arising from gridlocked megacities across the globe. Autonomous driving offers a solution for the high pollution levels and management of the transport infrastructure where current methods are proving insufficient in places of high population density. Having highlighted the need for driverless cars, the book concludes with an ambitious agenda to ensure the successful delivery of autonomous driving. Political requirements, including investment in a new infrastructure and a commitment to collaboration across borders factors in the ten-point plan for governments seeking to establish international leaders in the latest advances in mobility services. From ethical considerations in the programming of automated driving procedures to changes in attitudes towards car ownership and design, this title is a comprehensive look at the latest revolution in mobility.

Road traffic --- Automated vehicles --- Automated motor vehicles --- Autonomous vehicles --- Driver-free cars --- Driverless cars --- Robot cars (Automated vehicles) --- Self-driving cars --- Motor vehicles --- Autonomous vehicles. --- Business & Economics --- Road transport industries. --- Industries --- Transportation. --- Automated vehicles.