More than 70 people attended the VII Workshop on Transport Economics, held on 24 February last and organised by the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) and Fedea. The workshop brought together experts on mobility to discuss competencies, regulations and investment in Spain’s infrastructure and transport policy.

The director of Fedea, Ángel de la Fuente, the director of the IEB, Martí Perallada, UAB and IEB researcher, Anna Matas, and Universidad de Las Palmas (ULPGC) professor, Ginés de Rus, gave the opening addresses at the workshop. Later, Ginés de Rus, together with ULPGC professor Pilar Socorro, participated in the round table debate entitled ‘Investment and transport infrastructure rates’, chaired by UB researcher, Germà Bel.

Another area of analysis in the workshop was rail freight transport, a subject debated by Miquel Llevat, general director at COMSA, and Gerard Llobet, from the Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI).

Finally, the Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Julio Gómez-Pomar, closed the workshop with a paper entitled ‘Spain’s infrastructure policy’, in which he analysed the state’s transport infrastructure map and provided a breakdown of the strategy underpinning the government’s investment policy.