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, speed humps, etc.), economic instruments (pricing of transport, insurance pricing), education and sensitisation. In this …
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The partial equilibrium model PRIMES-transport has been used for the evaluation of different transport policy measures … which are on the table at EU or national level. The model covers the transport activity by transport mode and their … described. Then in a second part the different transport policy measures are evaluated. The policy measures are the introduction …
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I consider an urban transport system in which passenger cars and buses are used for commuting trips and for leisure … trips, where both transport modes contribute to congestion, and where commuting is a strict complement to taxable labour … differentiation of the transport tax between trip purposes is and is not possible. Using a stylised dataset for Belgian urban …
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The paper analyses the impact of economies of density on the characteristics of an urban transport system under optimal … pricing conditions. Optimal pricing rules are derived for a transport system where bus and car modes are available for peak … London shows that taking account of economies of density modestly increases the welfare gain from optimising transport prices …
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The paper assesses the marginal welfare and equity impacts of three transport instruments in the presence of three … transport externalities: congestion, air pollution and accidents. It considers a second-best economy in which the government has … equilibrium model for Belgium. The transport instruments are: peak road pricing, the fuel tax and subsidies to public transport …
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concreteness, the focus is on tax reform for freight road transport to cope with congestion externalities; results for other types … output markets, including the passenger transport market and the labour market. Moreover, it clearly shows that the welfare … with the level of the tax on the market for passenger transport; (ii) the higher the rate of passenger transport taxation …
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