This paper deals with the question of whether the capability of car drivers to estimate the cost of a new hypothetical, highly differentiated congestion charge influences their decision to change travel behaviour. The analysis makes use of an integrated choice and latent variable model (ICLV)...

<title>Abstract</title> While several European and national studies have dealt with the acceptability of road pricing schemes for passenger transport, only sparse research is available on this issue for freight transport. Against this background, the paper deals with the acceptability of the German road...

<title>Abstract</title> It is European Commission policy to charge modes of transport according to the marginal social cost of their use of the infrastructure, including environmental costs. However, progress in implementing this process has been slow, partly because of the difficulty of measuring and valuing...

Im Luftverkehr wiesen in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten sowohl die Passagierzahlen als auch das Frachtaufkommen überdurchschnittliche Wachstumsraten auf. Hiervon haben Fluggesellschaften, Flughäfen und Flugzeugindustrie profitiert. Es ist zu erwarten, dass sich der Luftverkehr von den Einbrüchen...

One component of optimal prices for infrastructure use is the marginal cost of maintaining and operating infrastructure. While extensive studies on optimal congestion and environmental charges as well as the respective cost estimates are available much less attention has been paid to the...

This paper analyses the differences in the efficiency of using subsidies for franchised regional rail services between the federal states in Germany, and provides evidence on the impact of procurement strategies and contractual design on the efficient use of funds. The analysis is based on a...

We estimate the marginal costs of road renewals as part of a social marginal cost scheme for road user charging. Within an analytical approach that mirrors the relationship between road deterioration, traffic load and road renewal, we use an accelerated failure time model for road pavement with...

This paper analyses the calculation principles used for determining the level and differentiation of HGV charges in Germany. It demonstrates that calculating average cost-based charges is far from straightforward, even with an agreed methodology, and involves sensitive methodological choices....