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take her own car will inflict a congestion cost on all travellers. To get the travellers to internalise these external … costs, a congestion charge has to be imposed. We derive an optimal congestion charge within in a discrete-choice framework …, with a benevolent government maximising expected tax-adjusted social surplus. The congestion charge to be imposed on …
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This study compares the environmental impacts of urban public transport and automobiles (energy use, emissions, noise nuisance, waste materials and use of space). For this purpose two models have been developed FACTS-Urban (Forecasting air pollution by car traffic simulation) and MILOV...
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In this paper we develop a framework to value public investments with the purpose of increasing bicycling that explicitly accounts internal costs of bicycling, which are typically neglected in current established approaches that value bicycle spending by means of gross health benefits alone, as...
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Sound empirical and quantitative analysis on the relationship between different patterns of urban expansion and environmental or social costs of mobility are still very rare in Europe and the few studies available provide only a qualitative discussion on this. Recently, Camagni et al. (2002)...
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