Road pricing, traffic congestion and the environment : issues of efficiency and social feasibility
Kenneth Button, Erik T. Verhoef
Abstract
Kenneth Button, Erik T. Verhoef
Abstract
Part 1 Theory and practice before and after Pigou: road pricing in practice congestion pricing and road investment recent developments in the bottleneck model. Part 2 Efficiency aspects and second-best policies: road pricing and the alternatives for controlling road traffic congestion variabilization of car taxes and externalities what is the scope for environmental road pricing? urban transport externalities and Pigouvian taxes - a network approach the economics of information and pricing in transport networks with stochastic congestion. Part 3 Political and social feasibility: road pricing for congestion management - the transition from theory to policy the equity impacts of road congestion pricing urban road pricing - public acceptability and barriers to implementation social feasibility of policies to reduce externalities in transport.
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Part 1 Theory and practice before and after Pigou: road pricing in practice congestion pricing and road investment recent developments in the bottleneck model. Part 2 Efficiency aspects and second-best policies: road pricing and the alternatives for controlling road traffic congestion variabilization of car taxes and externalities what is the scope for environmental road pricing? urban transport externalities and Pigouvian taxes - a network approach the economics of information and pricing in transport networks with stochastic congestion. Part 3 Political and social feasibility: road pricing for congestion management - the transition from theory to policy the equity impacts of road congestion pricing urban road pricing - public acceptability and barriers to implementation social feasibility of policies to reduce externalities in transport.
Key concepts: Pigou effect, Singapore Area Licensing Scheme, Road pricing, Externality, Congestion pricing, Transport economics, Traffic congestion, Economics