{"id":759,"date":"2016-02-11T11:37:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T11:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=759"},"modified":"2020-02-17T17:39:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T17:39:55","slug":"transport-economics-expert-calls-for-consistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2016\/02\/11\/transport-economics-expert-calls-for-consistency\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport economics expert calls for consistency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University&#8217;s Professor Roger Vickerman has called for greater consistency in how the UK regulates its various transport modes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a discussion on transport regulation, organised on 9 February by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Institute for Government <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/span><\/a> in partnership with the <span style=\"color: #0066cc\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityoflondon.gov.uk\/Pages\/default.aspx\">City of London Corporation<\/a><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/staff\/profiles\/roger-vickerman.html\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Professor Vickerman<\/span><\/a> argued that it was important to strike the right balance between user payments and public contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/8780\/transport-economics-expert-calls-for-consistency\">University of Kent website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University&#8217;s Professor Roger Vickerman has called for greater consistency in how the UK regulates its various transport modes. Speaking at a discussion on transport &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2016\/02\/11\/transport-economics-expert-calls-for-consistency\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37654,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}