Reforming Transport Pricing in the European Union

Reforming Transport Pricing in the European Union
Author: Bruno de Borger
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1781009953

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This work deals with the problem of pricing passenger and freight transportation within Europe. It argues that legislation affecting pricing and regulation is increasingly less successful in dealing with market failures and externalities such as congestion, air pollution, noise and accidents.

The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation

The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
Author: David L. Greene
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642590640

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Modern transportation systems have far-reaching, and serious consequences: deaths and injuries from accidents, pollution of air, water and groundwater, noise congestion, and the greenhouse effect. As world transport systems expand and become increasingly motorised, the transportation community is searching for systems that are both efficient and sustainable. Here, leading international researchers explore the issues and concepts and define the state of knowledge concerning the full costs and benefits of transportation.

The Economics of Regulating Road Transport

The Economics of Regulating Road Transport
Author: E. T. Verhoef
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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For students and policy makers interested in environmental and transportation economics, Verhoef (spatial econometrics, Free U. of Amsterdam) explores welfare economic evaluations of regulatory policies aimed directly or indirectly at containing market failures in road transportation. Taking account of efficiency, equity, and social feasibility, his discussions range from static analyses at the level of individual actors and firms, to the dynamic behavior of large spatio-economic systems. Most of the chapters draw heavily from articles previously published or forthcoming in professional journals. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Measuring the Marginal Social Cost of Transport

Measuring the Marginal Social Cost of Transport
Author: Christopher Nash
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2005-10-20
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0080456030

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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.