Download or read book Report of the Hundred and Fourteenth Round Table on Transport Economics, Held in Paris on 11th-12th March 1999 on the Following Topic written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Economic Research Centre and published by Paris, France : Economic Research Centre, European Conference of Ministers of Transport. This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although deregulation is well under way in the transport sector, regular coach services are still largely regulated. Governments see them as potentially competing with rail transport services. However, in countries that have had some experience with deregulation the outcome has clearly been positive (except for local short-distance services). The Round Table began with a review of regular interurban coach services based on case studies in countries which had adopted an original approach. This report shows the industry in a totally new light. One of its main findings is that there is a specific market for customers that have no other means of transport. Opening up this market would benefit the most economically disadvantaged sectors of the population. But that is not the only lesson to be learned from this Round Table.