Transport

  • Publications by Dieter Helm

    What to do about the roads

    22nd September 2012

    Transport

  • Presentations by Dieter Helm

    Meeting the World's Infrastructure Needs

    3rd June 2008

    International Monetary Conference, Barcelona June 3rd 2008

    Communications Energy Regulation Transport

  • Publications by Dieter Helm

    Introduction to 'Air Transport and Infrastructure '

    1st November 2003

    In D. Helm and D. Holt (eds.), 'Air Transport and Infrastructure: The Challenges Ahead', published November 2003 by Oxera, pp. 1-4. In committing itself to providing a 30-year framework for air transport policy, the government recognised that the existing approach of ad hoc interventions, delayed decisions and the consequent congestion could not be allowed to continue indefinitely. A ten-year transport strategy had been set out for the railways (DETR, 2000); a new energy policy was eventually...

    Regulation Transport

  • Publications by Dieter Helm

    DTI Transport Committee Inquiry into The Future of the Railways

    10th September 2003

    The government set out a new direction for transport policy in its integrated transport strategy White Paper, 'A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone', published in July 1998. This was followed by the 'Ten Year Plan'. A new era for the railways expansion was envisaged, which would be justified on economic and environmental grounds. Road building was severely curtailed, and a policy in roads of 'predict and provide' abandoned.

    Transport

  • Publications by Dieter Helm

    Inquiry into Passenger Rail Franchising and the Future of Railway Infrastructure

    8th March 2002

    Memorandum of Evidence submitted to the House of Commons Inquiry into Passenger Rail Franchising and the Future of Railway Infrastructure. This memorandum reviews the reasons for the failure of the Strategy Rail Authority's (SRA) refranchising strategy, comments on the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions' (DTLR) draft policy statement, and, in the light of the decision to halt the current process, makes a series of recommendations as to how to deliver improved performance...

    Transport

  • Publications by Dieter Helm

    Transport Sub-committee Inquiry into Passenger Rail Franchising

    13th September 2001

    This memorandum reviews the reasons for the failure of the Strategy Rail Authority's (SRA) refranchising strategy, comments on the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions' (DTLR) draft policy statement, and, in the light of the decision to halt the current process, makes a series of recommendations as to how to deliver improved performance and investment in the railways.

    Transport

  • Publications by Dieter Helm

    Whither the Railways?

    21st May 2001

    A Comment on "Phoenix from the Ashes" by Chris Green, for Institute of Economic Affairs. The failure to deliver the performance on the railways which its customers demand has led to a host of proposals for reform. These are often self-interested, and range from the re-nationalisation and re-monopolisation of the industry, through to more evolutionary measures, designed to fine-tune the structure put in place at privatisation.

    Transport

  • Publications by Dieter Helm

    A Critique of Rail Regulation

    17th October 2000

    Beesley Lecture, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, October 17th 2000. Very few privatisations have been free of teething problems, and all new regulatory bodies have faced criticisms, made mistakes, and had to improvise and adapt with experience. Perfect models and perfect processes are matters of academic debate; practical experience is bound to be less satisfactory. Rail privatisation and regulation, however, stands out from the pack: it has been much more controversial, and its critics...

    Regulation Transport