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Good policymaking is based on sound information. Seldom, however, does any research work generate findings that are genuinely new. Much research draws upon and extends bodies of existing knowledge to gain better insights or to refine the accuracy of key parameters. Modern information-retrieval systems allow increasingly easy access to the findings of previous work. One of the bigger challenges today is to keep abreast of what is actually going on, and to extract insights from the existing body of knowledge where gaps still exist and the most fruitful research may be conducted. There are three broad approaches towards our existing body of knowledge, and the aim of this paper is to examine the usefulness of these alternatives and to pinpoint the types of circumstance where one may prove more helpful than the others. It places particular attention on work done which relates to the effects that transport has on the environment.

In December 1987, some 30 years after the Treaty of Rome was signed, the first effective steps were taken to deregulate scheduled interstate airline operations within the Community. Considers why the Rome Treaty provisions, which favour a more competitive approach, were kept in suspense, despite Court of Justice rulings and a series of initiatives by the Commission. (SJK)

In this paper we investigate interdependencies between transport, spatial economy, and the environment in the context of policies aimed at a global environmental target. A small-scale spatial price equilibrium model is formulated and used to perform a number of numerical simulations, and to investigate market-based versus environmentally sound spatioeconomic configurations with first-best and second-best policies, and with endogenous environmental technologies. We thus present a modelling framework capable of dealing with complexities associated with the simultaneous regulation, first-best and second-best, of multiple interdependent sectors in a spatial setting.