Name: Networks in Canadian transportation and competition
Start: 2025-05-26T13:50:00-0400
End: 2025-05-26T14:10:00-0400

Welcome to CTRF’s 60th Annual Conference! Enjoy Ottawa

Monday May 26, 2025 1:50pm - 2:10pm EDT

Desmarais 1160

Networks have always been important in transportation. They have become ubiquitous today in all other sectors of the economy, including banking, pipelines, and grocery shopping. Their importance has further increased with the advent of the Internet-a "network of networks". In Canada the Competition Bureau launched a market study of competition in passenger air travel service and joined a joint new working group in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the US to identify and prevent potentially anticompetitive conduct in the global supply and distribution of goods. And in the US, the Justice Department's Antitrust Division and the Department of Transportation jointly announced a broad public inquiry into the state of competition in air travel. This provides the motivation for this paper - networks in transportation.Part I reviews the definition of networks and whether these networks are widespread in Canadian Transportation and its importance. Part II reviews the use of mathematics in networks and the economic theory of networks in transportation. In Part III, whether networks in transportation create economies is briefly examined and their treatment under the competition law. Part V provides a few concluding remarks.

Speakers

Anna Robak

Executive Director, Research & Innovation, WSP Canada

Passionate about designing a built environment that creates wealth and improves quality of life for all.Civil Engineer and Economist with a Asset Management backgroundMentor in the IBET program (Indigenous Black Engineering Technology)Adjunct Professor at UNB

26. Monteiro Robak CTRF2025 pdf

Monday May 26, 2025 1:50pm - 2:10pm EDT
Desmarais 1160 55 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa ON K1N 6N5

Enabling competitive supply chains

CTRF 2025

Anna Robak

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