The Costs of Road Infrastructure and Congestion in Europe

Author: Heike Link
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642586600
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
This book presents the results of the study "Infrastructure Capital, Maintenance and Road Damage Costs for Different Heavy Goods Vehicles in the EU" which was commissioned by the European Commission, DG VII. This study supported the preparation of the white book on transport infrastructure charging. The study an European consortium consisting of DIW (German has been conducted by Institute for Economic Research, project leader and responsible for the country reports for Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Sweden), INFRAS (responsible for the country reports for Switzerland, Denmark, Portugal and Greece), Consultancy Dr. Herry (responsible for the country reports for Austria, Finland, France and Italy) and NERA (National Economic Research Associates, responsible for the country reports for the UK, Ireland and Spain). The project ran from November 1997 to March 1998 and was monitored by a steering committee with representatives of the EU-member states. This book is dealing with the calculation of costs for road infrastructure and congestion and the allocation of these costs to vehicle types. It focuses on heavy goods vehicles. This is a topic of high relevance for transport policy both on the national and the EU-Ievel with a long tradition of political and scientific debate. The study contains a comprehensive methodological comparison of existing models for calculating road capital values and capital costs and for allocating infrastructure costs to vehicle types.

ECMT Round Tables Traffic Congestion in Europe

Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264180044
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
This Round Table defines congestion and determines the scale of the problem. It addressed the trends in congestion and the consequences of those trends. The Round Table then considered possible solutions to the congestion problem.

International Symposium on Theory and Practice in Transport Economics 50 Years of Transport Research Experience Gained and Major Challenges ahead.16th International Symposium on Theory and Practice in Transport Economics, Budapest, 29-31 October 2003

Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9282103498
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 547

Book Description
These conference proceedings sketch a broad overview of transport economics research since the inception of the ECMT in 1953 and map out the directions for future work.

Measuring the Marginal Social Cost of Transport

Author: Christopher Nash
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080456030
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 351

Book Description
Many transport economists have for some time proposed marginal social cost as the principle on which prices in the transport sector should be based and, in recent years, their prescription has come to be taken more and more seriously by policy-makers. However, in order to properly test the possible implications of implementing pricing based on marginal social cost and, ultimately, to introduce such a system, it is necessary to actually measure the marginal social costs concerned, and how they vary according to mode, time and context. This book reviews the transport pricing policy debate and reports on the significant advances made in measuring the marginal social costs of transport, particularly through UNITE and other European research projects. We look in turn at infrastructure, operating costs, user costs (both of congestion and of charges in frequency of scheduled transport services) accidents and environmental costs, and how these estimates have been used to examine the impact of marginal cost pricing in transport. We finish by examining how the results of case studies might be generalised to obtain estimates of marginal social costs for all circumstances and, finally, presenting our conclusions.

Efficient Transport for Europe Policies for the Internalisation of External Costs

Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264163182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
This report summarises the theoretical and practical dimensions to internalisation; reviews recent estimates of external costs; explores the mix of policies that might be used to promote internalisation successfully; and estimates the size of incentives required in monetary terms.

Managing Urban Traffic Congestion

Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9282101509
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
Offers policy-oriented, research-based recommendations for effectively managing traffic and cutting excess congestion in large urban areas.

International Perspectives on Road Pricing

Author:
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309093759
Category : Congestion pricing
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
TRB Conference Proceedings 34: International Perspectives on Road Pricing is the proceedings of the International Symposium on Road Pricing held on November 19-22, 2003, in Key Biscayne, Florida. The event was a collaborative effort of TRB, the Florida Department of Transportation, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the federal Highway Administration. The report includes two commissioned resource papers that examine the evolution of congestion pricing and the state of the practice in road pricing outside the United States. The proceedings also explore pricing successes and the challenges that have accompanied specific projects' implementation, as well as the potential evolution of road pricing in the future.

Traffic Congestion

Author: Alberto Bull
Publisher: Santiago, Chile : United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description

Europe's Automotive Industry on the Move

Author: Oliver Heneric
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3790816442
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
The automotive industry is a major pillar of the modern global economy and one of Europe’s key industries. There can hardly be any doubt about the important role of this sector as an engine for employment, growth and innovation in Europe, and there are crucial challenges and opportunities ahead. The authors shed light on a broad range of issues – globalisation and restructuring, trade and foreign direct investment, innovation, regulation, and industry policy – and put a special focus on the new member states. While change may be inevitable, progress is not. This book shall serve as a map to all stakeholders: business executives and policy makers, investors and scholars.

Pricing in Road Transport

Author: Erik Verhoef
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1848440251
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
. . . the book provides ample evidence of the various and often complex issues that arise in road pricing policies. New research is presented on topics mostly neglected in the past (such as the role of firms in rod pricing, or new insights from dynamic network models). Tilmann Rave, Journal of Regional Science Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a mono-disciplinary perspective. This book shows how a multi-disciplinary approach may lead to new types of analysis and insights, contributing to a better understanding of the intricacies of transport pricing and eventually to a potentially more effective and acceptable design of such policies. The study addresses important policy and research themes such as the possible motives for introducing road transport pricing and potential conflicts between these motives, behavioural responses to transport pricing for households and firms, the modelling of transport pricing, and the acceptability of pricing. Studying road transport pricing from a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book will be of great interest to transport policymakers and advisors, transport academics and consultants and students in transport studies.