Transport Planning and Altruism

In the present note, I intend to elaborate on the strict correlation between cultural group selection, cooperation and forms of altruism which may affect - for instance - the internalisation of external costs related to the implementation of transport infrastructure projects. Policy measures concerning the issue of transport safety and consequent optimal traffic charge through Pigouvian taxes for the internalisation of externalities related to road infrastructure may be influenced by the real content of the altruistic drive. I propose to examine the economic nature of altruism, the mechanism of its progressive affirmation through cultural evolutionary process and its various taxonomy