This paper assesses the efficiency of cross-financing new motorway or rail projects from established toll motorways as an alternative to direct public subsidies. For new motorway projects a combination of short-run marginal social cost pricing and cross-financing is the best of the alternative...

This paper describes a framework for analysing the acceptability of pricing changes in the transport sector. This framework is based on Rawls' theory of justice and makes reference to economic efficiency (efficiently managing demand), spatial equity (guaranteed access), horizontal equity (the...

This paper addresses methodological issues in cost–benefit analysis (CBA) regarding congestion charging schemes. Despite suspicion on the reality of travel time savings, it is argued that these savings are a conservative value of surplus gained from a congestion scheme. The methodology of...

Various methods of restricting automobile traffic, by price (tolls) or by quantity (odd/even license plates or limited days of traffic), are tested in a survey (N∼400) about attitudes toward traffic restrictions in Lyon, France. Ordered probit models with random-effects panel allow us to...

Face à la rareté de ressources (espace / congestion et argent public) et aux contraintes environnementales, l'enjeu est aujourd'hui de trouver de nouvelles régulations pour améliorer l'efficacité du système de transport.Ce papier cherche à élaborer un cadre d'analyse de l'acceptabilité...

Un cadre d'analyse de l'acceptabilité des changements tarifaires dans le secteur des transports est élaboré. Ce cadre analytique est bâti sur la confrontation des dimensions de l'efficacité économique, de l'équité territoriale, de l'équité horizontale et de l'équité verticale. Ce...

In December 2003, the French government decided to implement an ambitious transport policy with a set of significant transport infrastructure projects. So as to finance a part of this policy a new public funding agency, called AFITF ("Agence pour le Financement des Infrastructures de Transport...

Regulation by means of price in order to remove excess demand is generally perceived as being unfair. This paper empirically tests different principles of regulation including lotteries, rationing, a moral rule and compensation.We start from the postulate that the perception of the fairness of a...

Cette recherche a pour objet d'explorer les attitudes et opinions des citadins face à de nouvelles mesures tarifaires (notamment péages routiers urbains mais aussi et plus généralement les modulations tarifaires dans les transports privés et publics) ainsi que d'aider à l'élaboration de...