Sökning: "road pricing"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden road pricing.
1. Implementing Road Pricing : Standards, Institutions, Costs, and Public Acceptance
Sammanfattning : Much has been researched and written about road pricing, and especially how it affects traffic flow, congestion, the environment, and social welfare in general. This doctoral thesis analyses the implementation of road user charges rather than its effects. The dissertation consists of five separate papers, each addressing a subset of the topic. LÄS MER
2. Towards an efficient use of infrastructure and the built environment : Essays in transport and housing economics
Sammanfattning : All four papers in the thesis share a common theme: how to achieve an efficient use of infrastructure and the built environment. In the presence of externalities, pricing according to the (short-run) marginal cost is one answer on how this can be achieved and the first two papers estimates parts of the marginal cost of traffic. LÄS MER
3. Efficiency and acceptability of pricing policies and transport investments in distorted economies
Sammanfattning : This thesis contains five papers studying the economic efficiency and political acceptability of road pricing policies and transport investments in distorted economies. Interactions between the transport market and other distorted markets, such as the labor market, can have a large impact on the welfare effect of a road pricing policy or a transport investment. LÄS MER
4. Designing Urban Road Congestion Charging Systems : Models and Heuristic Solution Approaches
Sammanfattning : The question of how to design a congestion pricing scheme is difficult to answer and involves a number of complex decisions. This thesis is devoted to the quantitative parts of designing a congestion pricing scheme with link tolls in an urban car traffic network. LÄS MER
5. The Internalization of External Effects in Swedish Transport Policy - A Comparison Between Road and Rail Traffic
Sammanfattning : Transport is a key factor for economic growth. It has enabled both the economic scale of production and an increase in competition. No one can question this role of transportation. There is, however, a back-side to the coin: the environmental challenge. LÄS MER