At the end of the course the attendant should be familiar with the peculiarities of network and transport economics. The attendants should be able to describe the specificities of the transport market and the requirements for an individually desired and socially sustainable organisation of this market, based on examples. The attendant should understand and characterise the principles of regulation, pricing, investment planning and financing of the transport infrastructure. Furthermore he should be able to compile the relevant pieces of the above information to comment the basic pillars of the European transport policy, based on the White Paper of the Commission of 2001.

1. Basics of Network Economics 2. Natural Monopolies and Regulation 3. External Diseconomies and Internalisation 4. Transport Costs and Transport Pricing 5. Transport Organisation, Transport Associations, Railway Reform 6. Transport Infrastructure Finance 7. Transport Investment Planning 8. European Transport Policy

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