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IEB

Acte: Workshop

6th MEETING ON TRANSPORT ECONOMICS AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Inici: gener 22, 2026 Fi: gener 23, 2026

Sala de Graus. Faculty of Economic & Business (Diagonal Av. 690. Barcelona)

Presentació

The aim of this meeting is to discuss recent research in the area of transport and infrastructure economics. The meeting will focus on issues related to pricing, investment and competition, but research papers in other areas of transport economics and infrastructure analysis, both from empirical and theoretical perspectives, are also welcome. Around 15 papers will be accepted for presentation and discussion at the meeting, which will take place on Thursday afternoon and Friday all day at the Faculty of Economics of University of Barcelona (Av Diagonal 690, Barcelona).

Institucions organitzadores

Institu d'Economia de Barcelona logotipo Universitat de Barcelona logotipo

Keynote Speaker

Maria Börjesson (VTI, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute)
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Main topics of interest

Infrastructure investment and finance

Pricing issues in urban transport

Air transport and airport management

Freight economics and urban logistics

The economics of parking

Public transport: performance, efficiency and regulation

Governance, ownership and competition issues in transport

Energy and environmental issues in transport

Railway economics: infrastructure access and competition

Maritime transport and port economics

Submissions

Papers should be sent to ieb.workshop@ub.edu by November 2, 2025. Only papers presented in PDF format and no longer than 30 pages will be considered. Papers will be evaluated by the scientific committee. The acceptance decision will be notified to authors by November 30, 2025

Deadlines

Deadline for submission of papers: November 2, 2025

Notification of acceptance of papers: November 30, 2025

Registration: October 1, 2025 to January 16, 2026

Registration fees

Register at: www.ieb.ub.edu

Fee covers coffee breaks on Thursday and Friday & lunch on Friday.

Standard fee: 90 €

Ph.D students: free

Scientific committee

Daniel Albalate (Universitat de Barcelona)

Javier Campos (U. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)

Mattia Borsati (Universitat de Barcelona)

Tiziana D’Alfonso (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Xavier Fageda (Universitat de Barcelona)

Sofia Franco (University of California, Irvine)

Albert Gragera (UAB & IEB)

Daniel Hörcher (Imperial College & Budapest IT)

Anna Matas (UAB & IEB)

José Manuel Vassallo (UPM)

Organizing committee

Javier Asensio (UAB & IEB)

Juan Pablo Sepúlveda (UAB)

Yu Sang (UAB)