International Symposium on Spatial Economics
and Transportation

June 13-15, 2005
Mitsui Urban Hotel (Sendai)

Opening Speech
Komei Sasaki ( Tohoku U )


"A Spatio-Temporal Data Model for Economic Loss for Transportation Networks under Unscheduled Events"
Presenter : Tschangho John Kim ( U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )
Discussant : Dai Nakagawa (Kyoto U )


"On the Optimal Fares for Public Transport"
Presenter :Kenneth A . Small (U of California, Irvine)
Discussant :Yukihiro Kidokoro (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)


"On distributive maintenance of interregional Transportation infrastructure"
Presenter : Kei Fukuyama (Tohoku U)
Discussant :Ryosuke Okamoto (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)


"On the identification of industrial agglomerations and their spatial coordination"
Presenter :Tomoya Mori (Kyoto U)
Discussant :Asao Ando (Tohoku U)


"Changes in infrastructure and tariff barriers: local vs global impacts"
Presenter :Takatoshi Tabuchi (U of Tokyo)
Discussant :Takashi Akamatsu (Tohoku U)


"Second-Best Congestion Pricing Schemes in the Monocentric City"
Presenter :Erik T. Verhoef (Free U of Amsterdam)
Discussant :Makoto Okumura (Hiroshima U)


"Urbanization and poverty-trap: a demographic perspective"
Presenter :Kazuhiro Yamamoto (Osaka U)
Discussant :Takayuki Ueda(U of Tokyo)


"The Home Market Effect and the Agricultural Sector"
Presenter :Dao-Zhi Zeng (Kagawa U)
Discussant :Erik Verhoef (Free U of Amsterdam)


"The Political Economy of Urban Transport-System Choice"
Presenter : Jan Brueckner (U of Califonia, Irvine)
Discussant :Tatsuaki Kuroda (Nagoya U)


"Simplified Alonso-Mills-Muth Model with a Monopoly Vendor"
Presenter : Fu-Chuan Lai (U of National Taipei)
Discussant :Yasusada Murata (Nihon U)


Closing Speech
Jan Brueckner