PG Funding and Management Strategies Overview of work done 5th meeting Monday, 24 September 2007 Paris La Défense

Projects M1: To analyse public private partnership (PPP) for roads and road transport administration M4: Show the effect of road pricing on socio-economy M6: Show how best to access EU financial support and explore the financial procurement M7: Develop a best practice guide for the cost manangement for long-term investment

First On the 4th meeting 19th April 2007 the group decided –Focus on M1: PPP and M4: road pricing On 23th May 2007: Report of the group’s work so far and what we are planning to do for Strategic Plan Revision Report. –Status –Plan like our aim to give final report on our projects

M1: What has been done so far? On the first meeting 8th February 2006: we decided to send a questionnaire (in cooperation with PIARC group) to CEDR members countries. 15th March 2006: questionnaire was sent out to CEDR members countries. On the second meeting 10th October 2006: 14 questionnaires had been filled out by CEDR’s countries and 2 other questionnaires have been added to these 14 countries since then. (plus 7 questionnaires from other countries than CEDRs members countries). On the second meeting 10th October 2006: Wim Leendertse has been chosen project leader.

M1: What has been done so far? On the second meeting 10th October 2006: we decided following action plan: –Benchmarks out of the answers of the questionnaires (Nov 2006) - Wim Leendertse will introduce the result on the 3rd meeting. –Reference reports on PPP (Oct 2006) – Bernd Quakernack. –Analyse own experience (Nov 2006) - Wim Leendertse will suggest an action plan for the analyses on the 3rd meeting –Structure of report (Nov 2006) – Bernd Quakernack, Sophie Pochard, Wim Leendertse. –Write the report (Feb 2007) – Kristín H. Sigurbjörnsdóttir will introduce the CEDR’s report structure and suggest action plan for writing the PPP report on the 3rd meeting.

M1: What has been done so far? On the third meeting 22nd February 2007: Wim Leendertse and Inge Veldhuis had bencmarked the answers from the questionnaire for 16 countries. Wim Leendertse have concluded from the overview of the data that many more questions were raised. Inge Veldhuis gave a presentation on the results of the benchmark analysis and the group discussed it. Wim Leendertse had written iterim report on PPP on 15th Mars 2007 which was sent to the EB members. He has also prepared a presentation for EB. On EB meeting in Vilnius 29th Mars 2007 Wim Leendertse gave a presentation on the results of the benchmark analysis. Bernd Quakernack had sent the reference report on PPP from Price Waterhouse Cooper 2nd April 2007.

M1: What has been done so far? On the fourth meeting 19th April 2007: Michel Egger gave the group some conclusion from EB meeting where Wim Leendertse had given a presentation on PPP. The presentation was appreciated and had raised a lot of interest among the EB members. They welcomed the proposal to have a PPP decision making support tool. On the fourth meeting 19th April 2007: Wim Leendertse gave a presentation on his proposal for the next steps. His proposal were to upgrade and finalize basic information based on the questionnaire, to further analyse the results and to establish the structure of the decision support model. The group had agreed on and decided following: –Updated questionnaire will be sent out in May followed by interview by telephone or visit in June and July. Wim Leendertse’s colleagues Inge Veldhuis and one other will take care of these interviews. –After the interviews analyse further the results. –Wim Leendertse will send to the group a first draft of the structure of the decision support model for support and for exchange of reaction and comments from the group by . –The draft of decision support tool will be presented in EB meeting in September –The aim is to present final report to the EB in November th May 2007: Updated questionnaire was sent to EB members and PG Funding members. Return of the questionnaire was supposed to be 15th June July-September 2007: Some inteviews have been done and works on decision support model.

M4: What has been done so far? On the second meeting 10th October 2006: Laurent Donato has been chosen project leader. On the second meeting 10th October 2006: we decided following action plan: –Status of work by PIARC (Jan 2007) – Laurent Donato had sent to the group members main conclusions from PIARC seminar on road pricing which has been held in Cancun in April –Road pricing in one’s own country (Jan 2007) – Laurent Donato had sent to the group members some key questions about the road pricing practice. He only has got answers from 6 members so far (Belgium, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Lithuania, Netherlands). Laurent will introduce the results on the 3rd meeting.

M4: What has been done so far? On the third meeting 22nd February 2007: Laurent Donato gave a presentation on his conclusion on Road Pricing after he had received answers from 6 contries. Laurent Donato had written iterim report on Road pricing 29th Mars in french.

M4: What has been done so far? On the fourth meeting 19th April 2007: Laurent Donato had prepared presentation on his iterim report which Kristín H. Sigurbjörnsdóttir presented in his absence. The group discussed the project for a long time and they agreed on that Laurent Donato had mostly done the work on an inventory of existing or planned road pricing system in the CEDR's states but the group need to do more work on socio-economic consequences of road pricing. The group decided that Anton Goebel from Finland and Morten Rannem from Norway would help Laurent Donato with that work in coming months. The group decided the following: –Make a clear and extensive inventory of what exists in Europe. –Describe and analyse in far more depth what are the consequences of road pricing on the society, economy and environment. –State the theories behind the decisions made on road pricing. –Discuss why some projects are a failure and why some populations are so opposed road pricing. –Obtain more information from the other countries, ask far more questions and present many more examples. –Obtain the pros and cons of the examples to provide for more analysis. –Incorporate questions into the report for discussion among the group at the next meeting. –Incorporate the more detailed remarks and examples that have been sent separately to the group on road pricing. –Answers have to come out from the report that give a way forward and help the Road Administrations make decisions. –To have iterim report ready in October 2007 and introduce it on EB meeting in the end of November –The aim is to present final report to the EB in April or in October 2008.

M4: What has been done so far? 2nd May 2007: Anton Goebel had sent to the group his comments on Laurent’s reports. One of his proposition is to create framework for evaluation of socio economic impacts based on “impact chain approach”. 21st May 2007: A demand came from the GB to the EB and TD/PG/TG to take in charge some strategic sessions during the next TRA (Transport Research Arena) conference that will take place in the end of April 2008 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The PG Funding is asked to supervise one session Road Pricing and Tolling. Mr. Yvon Loyaerts has asked the group, to prepare the content of the session and find someone responsible who could also be the animator. 4th June 2007: Kristín H. Sigurbjörnsdóttir sent to the group the question of someone volunteering to be responsble and animate the session at TRA 2008 and she had proposed that Laurent Donato or Anton Goebel or Morten Rannem animate this work and would be responsble for the group’s contribution. 25th June 2007: Morten Welde, a colleague of Morten Rannem had sent to Laurent Donato his comments on Laurent’s reports. He also had started preparing the road pricing session at TRA th July 2007: Morten Welde had sent his first proposition on the road pricing session at TRA 2008.

M6: What has been done so far? On the second meeting 10th October 2006: Donatas Dudonis has been chosen project leader. Short questionnaire was sent out to participants and the project leader has only got a few answers so far.  The questionnaire was resent to the participants on 13th Mars and the project leader hasn’t got more answers so far.

M6: What has been done so far? On the fourth meeting 19th April 2007: Vytautas Lingaitis gave a presentation on Lithuania’s experience on received EU financial aid. After discussion the group has agreed on following: –Obtain more information to specify what criteria makes a country eligible to receive funds, which countries are eligible and from there approach only the countries who are eligible. –The questionnaire should be tested within the group before it is sent out. –Michel Egger will contact Poland, Portugal and Spain to obtain more assistance. –The EU should have booklet on the Internet on how to apply for EU funds –Wim Leendertse will inform Michel Goppel that Vytautas Lingaitis will contact him to obtain the booklet Partner for Roads. –Mr Janušauskas must have documented what the EU has asked from Lithuania. This information must be obtained and used to draw up the procedure to follow to obtain funds from the EU. –By the next meeting, the countries with experience on obtaining funds and who can contribute must have been contacted. –The questionnaire must be redone with more specific questions and exclude questions where the answers can be found on the Internet. –A new paper will be presented to the group at the next meeting. 21st May 2007: Michel Egger announced to Vytautas Lingaitis that he had contacted the General Directors of Poland and Spain concerning the involvement of their personnel in PG Funding. 28th May 2007: Vytautas Lingaitis had sent questions to the Polish and Spanish members in the PG Funding. 16th July 2007: Catherine Lerta had sent more information on Greek’s experience on accessing EU financial support and exploring the financial procurement.

M7: What has been done so far?  On the second meeting 10th October 2006: Bernd Quakernack has been chosen project leader.  On the third meeting 22nd February 2007: Bernd Quakernack has announced that he will not participate in the group from next month.  Information on Asset Management sent to the group on 30th Mars.