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This paper discusses incentives for investments in transport infrastructure and commuting subsidies in a multi …-region framework. Responsibilities of fiscal treatment of commuting expenses, public provision of road infrastructure and road pricing … commuting from a peripheral, less productive area to an urban agglomeration or city center. The interactions between investment …
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This paper discusses investments in transport infrastructure and incentives for commuting taxes in a multiregional … revenue-sharing mechanism in the federation. A numerical example applies the insights on commuting in Belgium …
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This paper considers various policy measures to reduce traffic externalities in cities, including externality-reducing investments, tolls, emission standards, low emission zones, and bypass capacity to guide traffic around the city center. Using a simple model that distinguishes local and...
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In this paper, we take a political economy approach to study the introduction of urban congestion tolls, using a simple majority voting model. Making users pay for external congestion costs is for an economist an obvious reform, but successful introductions of externality pricing in transport...
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