Sixteenth annual report and resolutions of the council of ministers, 1969

266 Pages·1970·14.041 MB·English

by  OECD

EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF TRANSPORT
XIX
SIXTEENTH
ANNUAL REPORT
AND
RESOLUTIONS
OF THE
COUNCIL
OF MINISTERS
YEAR 1969
STOCKHOLM, 11th JUNE 1969
PARIS, 16th DECEMBER 1969

EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF TRANSPORT
XIX
SIXTEENTH
ANNUAL REPORT
AND
RESOLUTIONS
OF THE
lOUNCIL
>F MINISTERS
YEAR 1969
STOCKHOLM, 11th JUNE 1969
PARIS, 16th DECEMBER 1969

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
Part II v
RESOLUTIONS
Rail Transport Problems:
RESOLUTION No. 17 ON MEASURES CONCERNING THE USE OF COST
ANALYSIS ON RAILWAYS (cid:9)'(cid:9) 53
General Problems:
RESOLUTION No. 20 CONCERNING THE FORMULATION OF GENERAL
RULES FOR INTERNATIONAL COACH AND BUS TRANSPORT (cid:9) 65
RESOLUTION No. 21 CONCERNING MEASURES TO BE TAKEN FOR
IMPROVING URBAN TRANSPORT (cid:9) 81
Part III
REPORTS APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
REPORT ON THE STANDARDIZATION OF RAILWAYS ROLLING STOCK (cid:9) 107
REPORT ON THE EFFECTS OF CONTAINERISATION ON RAILWAYS (cid:9) 119
REPORT ON PRESENT PROBLEMS CONCERNING LARGE CONTAINER
TRANSPORT AND ROLL-ON/ROLL-OFF SERVICES (cid:9) 133
REPORT ON CLOSER ALIGNMENT OF RATES AND COSTS (cid:9) 165
REPORT ON INVESTMENTS IN INLAND TRANSPORT FROM 1953 TO 1967 (cid:9) 169
REPORT ON TRAFFIC AND INVESTMENT TRENDS IN 1968 (cid:9) 189
Annexes
1. LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE ECMT (cid:9) 259
2. LIST OF DELEGATES AT THE STOCKHOLM AND PARIS CONFERENCES ... 260

Part I
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
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CONTENTS
I. General review of the proceedings of the Conference and its external relations 11
II. General transport policy (cid:9) 14
A. Action taken by the ECMT (cid:9) 14
B. Action at national level (cid:9) 17
III. Railway problems (cid:9) 25
A. Financial situation of the railways (cid:9) 25
a) General activities (cid:9) 25
b) Normalization of accounts (cid:9) 26
c) Steps taken to put railways on a more strictly commercial
footing and to reduce their public service obligations (cid:9) 29
B. Activities of the Eurofima Company (cid:9) 31
C. Automatic coupling (cid:9) 31
IV. Problems concerning roads and road transport (cid:9) 33
A. Co-ordination of road traffic rules (cid:9) 33
B. Road Safety problems (cid:9) 33
V. Inland waterways problems (cid:9) 35
VI. Combined transport problems (cid:9) 36
VII. Urban transport problems (cid:9) 37
ANNEXES
I. Organisation Chart of the ECMT for 1969 (cid:9) 41
II. Resolution 423(1969) of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe ... 43
III. Extract from a note of the UIC on the normalization of railways accounts .... 45
IV. 13th Report of the Eurofima Company (as provided under Article 66 of the
Convention) (cid:9) 48