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Dr. Pons worked on the CENIT transport economics and policy research team<\/strong> from 2014 to 2018 before moving to London to continue his career. During his time at CENIT, and under the guidance of CENIT thesis advisors Dr. Sergi Saur\u00ed March\u00e1n and Dr. Mateu Turr\u00f3 Calvet, Dr. Pons focused his research on examining certain critical second-best issues for the definition of transport pricing schemes through three different case studies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Dr. Pons explains \u201cThe issue is that pricing has been pushed as a suitable policy instrument to deal with transport externalities<\/strong> for many years. And we also have seen that recent technological developments enable the implementation of more sophisticated pricing schemes at affordable transaction costs. However, the policy maker\u00b4s job is not an easy one. They face numerous constraints and conflicting policy objectives when putting transport pricing schemes into practice<\/strong>. This is where the second-best analysis of specific case studies comes into play – and contributes to translating insights from pricing theory into practical advice in policy design and evaluation.\u201d<\/p>\n The thesis studies this second-best issue in the context of<\/p>\n – The application of workplace parking policies for Barcelona<\/strong><\/p>\n The effects of policies addressing current inefficiencies around employer-paid parking on the urban economy are studied through a stylised microeconomic model and a numerical illustration for the metropolitan area of Barcelona.<\/p>\n – Environmental rail access charges in Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n Current noise and pollution rail charges implemented in Europe are analysed qualitatively as to what extent they address second-best best issues of the rail market, including potential modal shifts to road transport and its imperfectly competitive environment.<\/p>\n – A road pricing reform in Catalonia<\/strong><\/p>\n The proposed model and implementation path builds on a study of revenues and costs for the interurban network, and a qualitative analysis of the trade-offs between financial sustainability, mobility management, and spatial equity.<\/p>\n Please join us in congratulating Dr. Pons on his outstanding achievement and contribution to transport economics and policy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Aleix Pons has successfully defended his thesis on Second-best pricing schemes for Transport Infrastructure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":251204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=\"no\" hundred_percent_height=\"no\" hundred_percent_height_scroll=\"no\" hundred_percent_height_center_content=\"yes\" equal_height_columns=\"no\" menu_anchor=\"\" hide_on_mobile=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\" status=\"published\" publish_date=\"\" class=\"\" id=\"\" background_color=\"\" background_image=\"\" background_position=\"center center\" background_repeat=\"no-repeat\" fade=\"no\" background_parallax=\"none\" enable_mobile=\"no\" parallax_speed=\"0.3\" video_mp4=\"\" video_webm=\"\" video_ogv=\"\" video_url=\"\" video_aspect_ratio=\"16:9\" video_loop=\"yes\" video_mute=\"yes\" video_preview_image=\"\" border_size=\"\" border_color=\"\" border_style=\"solid\" margin_top=\"\" margin_bottom=\"\" padding_top=\"\" padding_right=\"\" padding_bottom=\"\" padding_left=\"\"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=\"1_1\" layout=\"1_1\" spacing=\"\" center_content=\"no\" link=\"\" target=\"_self\" min_height=\"\" hide_on_mobile=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\" class=\"\" id=\"\" background_color=\"\" background_image=\"\" background_image_id=\"\" background_position=\"left top\" background_repeat=\"no-repeat\" hover_type=\"none\" border_size=\"0\" border_color=\"\" border_style=\"solid\" border_position=\"all\" padding_top=\"\" padding_right=\"\" padding_bottom=\"\" padding_left=\"\" margin_top=\"\" margin_bottom=\"\" animation_type=\"\" animation_direction=\"left\" animation_speed=\"0.3\" animation_offset=\"\" last=\"no\"][fusion_text columns=\"\" column_min_width=\"\" column_spacing=\"\" rule_style=\"default\" rule_size=\"\" rule_color=\"\" hide_on_mobile=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\" class=\"\" id=\"\"]\r\nThe Latin American Development Bank report highlights the current investment gap in the region and reviews intervention strategies to tackle future challenges and trends<\/h3>\r\n[\/fusion_text][fusion_text columns=\"\" column_min_width=\"\" column_spacing=\"\" rule_style=\"default\" rule_size=\"\" rule_color=\"\" hide_on_mobile=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\" class=\"\" id=\"\"]\r\n\r\nIncreased and sustained investment in infrastructure is of paramount importance for economic growth in any region, and nowhere is this truer than in the Latin American region where inconsistent and insufficient investment<\/strong> was noted as the main cause of slower economic growth<\/strong> during the mid-term period 2007-2012. Falling investment in transport infrastructure and logistics has had a knock-on effect on the commercial development of the region as a whole.\r\n\r\nThe Latin American Development Bank, founded 50 years ago, recently funded an investment analysis study of the region\u00b4s intercity land transport sector, focusing specifically on road and rail. Irene de Cubas, CENIT\u00b4s Research Engineer for the report explains\r\n\r\n\"We know there is a direct correlation between a country or region\u00b4s GDP and transport infrastructure. In fact, Latin America<\/strong> is an extreme case, having a very limited transport network in relation to land area and population. So this is what we would call an infrastructure gap<\/strong>, in other words the need for investment projects to gradually bring the region in line or on an even footing with other regions such or Europe, North America or Asia Pacific to encourage long term increased economic growth and prosperity as a whole\".\r\n\r\nSpecifically, the report highlights:\r\n\r\n- Performance and sustainability indicators<\/strong> and impact of new technologies\r\n- Capacity and demand measures<\/strong> to determine the need for future investment\r\n- Gap analysis<\/strong> comparing land transport infrastructure to the OECD objective\r\n- Overriding trends and challenges<\/strong> in the transport sector\r\n- Social and environmental effects<\/strong>\r\n- The impacts of expected technological innovations and the expected medium and long-term effects for Latin America\r\n- The need to establish criteria<\/strong> for selecting those projects that can provide the greatest added value, the focus being to prioritise profitable and sustainable projects\r\n\r\nAs with all long term strategic investment projects, it\u00b4s not just about doing things right, but in fact doing the right thing in the first place.\r\n\r\n[\/fusion_text][fusion_youtube id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DSagX8dknQI\" alignment=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" autoplay=\"false\" api_params=\"&rel=0\" hide_on_mobile=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\" class=\"\" css_id=\"\" \/][\/fusion_builder_column][\/fusion_builder_row][\/fusion_builder_container]","_et_gb_content_width":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Transport Infrastructure PhD successfully defended - CIMNE","description":"Dr. Aleix Pons has successfully defended his thesis on Second-best pricing schemes for Transport Infrastructure"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[284,40],"tags":[472,45,515,503,514,44,154],"class_list":["post-251203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cenit","category-innovation-news","tag-infrastructure","tag-innovation","tag-leadership","tag-phd","tag-phdthesis","tag-research","tag-transport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}