Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies on April 16.

Date: Monday, 14th May, 2012
Time: 16:40-18:10
Venue: GRIPS　Sokairo Hall, 1st Floor
Speaker: Dr. Emile Quinet, Emeritus professor of Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussees
Theme: “An assessment of European transport policies”
Language: English, (Japanese simultaneous interpretation provided)
Fee: Attending the GRIPS Forum is free of charge but prior registration is recommended

European transport policy has been developed under the influence of multiple considerations such as market liberalization, harmonization, environment, and cohesion, to name a few. However, recent assessment has shown that the challenges are growing and becoming more contradictory. This Forum will outline how European Transport Policy has evolved and the challenges it must overcome.

Speakers’ Profile:
Emile Quinet is both a reknown academic scholar, author of about 20 books and 200 articles, communications and research reports, and an international expert in public economics and in strategic management of public and semi-public organizations.
He participated in many consultancies on project assessment and feasibility procedures, both for specific countries and for international organizations (especially in France, Algeria, UNO, OECD).
He has contributed to set up masterplans and strategic planning ( for instance France, India, Italy, Algeria). He also gave recommendations on productivity studies of public undertakings and on the setting of regulation procedures of public services procurement (among which, most recently, Algeria, France, the UK).

Recent publications:
« Principles of Transport Economics » with R Vickerman, Edward Elgar, London, 2004 « La tarification des transports : problèmes et enjeux » editor with A de Palma, Economica, Paris, 2005 Recent articles:
・“Towards an Optimisation of Track Maintenance and Renewal policy” with Y Putallaz and R Rivier, in “The Management and Measurement of Infrastructure” edited by C Karlsson, W Anderson, B Johansson and K Koyabashi, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007
・“France: awaiting competition” in “Competition in the Railways Industry” edited by T Gomez-Ibanez and G de Rus, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2006
・“The contracting of investment and operation, and the management of infrastructure funding bodies”, with D Meunier, in “Investment and the Use of Taxes and Tolls Revenues in the Transport Sector”, Research in Transportation Economics vol 19 edited by A de Palma and S Proost, 2007
・“Assessment of External Costs: How and Why?” with Ph Domergue, in Threats from car traffic to the quality of urban life, T Garling and L Steg, editors, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2007
・Optimisation et decentralisation des investissements de transports, with J Maurice and A Sauvant, Economie et Prévision, 2007, N°175-176, pp 31-51
・“Cost Benefit Analysis of Transport Projects in France” in “Cost benefit analysis and incentives in Evaluation” edited by M Florio, Edward Elgar, 2008
・« Peut-on réformer l’économie française ? » Futuribles, november 2008
・“Une méthode d’optimisation des programmes d’investissements de transport”, with A Sauvant, in « Le calcul économique dans le processus de choix collectif des investissements de transport » by J Maurice and Y Crozet, editors, Economica, Paris, 2007
・« L’ouverture à la concurrence dans le chemin de fer : chronique d’une révolution annoncée » in La Revue Parlementaire, Paris, Juillet 2009
・«Effect of imperfect competition on infrastructure charges » with D Meunier, European Transport/Trasporti Europei, forthcoming 2010)

For registration and inquiries, please contact:
GRIPS Forum
Email: gripsforum[at]grips.ac.jp
Tel: 03-6439-6037
Fax: 03-6439-6030

Please register by 11th Mayl (Fri) 2012
＊If you are arriving by a private car, please let us know the car information (type, color, and number) in advance so that we can register it for campus entry permission.

For Access & Map to the GRIPS campus: http://www.grips.ac.jp/about/access.html
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677