IMPRINT – EUROPE Professor Chris Nash (Institute for Transport Studies University of Leeds) Coordinator

OBJECTIVES to facilitate the exchange of experience and transfer of knowledge to draw together the results of previous and on-going research to make these results accessible to policy-makers, practitioners, industry and other professionals to assist policy-makers, practitioners, industry and other professionals in developing and responding to pricing policy reform

HOW IMPRINT WILL WORK A series of 6 international seminars, involving: position papers commissioned from network members group discussions a formal written output Additional dissemination will take place via: a website and by additional publications – books, journal articles and the trade press

WHO WILL BE INVOLVED? Core partners – ITS (UK); ISIS (It); TNO INRO (Nl); FAV (De); and BUTE(H) a mix of research, operator and consultancy organisations with in- depth experience of transport pricing and strong links to national governments and the transport industry to be responsible for organising seminars, commissioning and peer- reviewing papers and production of deliverables Members will be commissioned by the core partners to contribute pre-written papers Experts participate at the seminars but do not present papers and include national representatives nominated by the member states

THE CONTENT AND TIMING OF SEMINARS key requirements for implementing pricing reform in transport – Autumn 2001 identifying mode-specific issues – Spring 2002 constraints and solutions – learning from best practice – Autumn 2002 phasing and packaging – Spring 2003 Issues for accession countries – October 2003 recommendations for implementing pricing reform in transport –Feb 2004