Pollution, alternative fuels, congestion, intelligent transportation systems, and the shift from construction to maintenance all call for a reconsideration of the existing highway revenue mechanisms, especially the gas tax. David Levinson explores the fundamental theoretical basis of highway...

Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a...

In February 2003, the London Congestion Charging Scheme was introduced and in 2006 a similar policy was introduced in Stockholm. In both cases automobile traffic entering the cordon declined by about 20 percent. This book evaluates these and other similar programs exploring their implications...

The regulation of road transport externalities - environmental pollution, noise annoyance, accidents and congestion - is one of the most important issues in contemporary transport policies. The Economics of Regulating Road Transport explores welfare economic evaluations - in terms of efficiency...

Contents: 1. Railway regulation: A comparative analysis of a diverging reality / Juan Montero and Matthias Finger -- 2. Railway regulation in Germany / Thomas Fetzer -- 3. The ongoing process of liberalization of the railway sector in France / Stéphane de la Rosa -- 4. Developments in rail...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): F.P. Ramsey (1927), 'A Contribution to the Theory of Taxation', Economic Journal, 37 (145), March, 47-61 -- Harold Hotelling (1938), 'The General Welfare in Relation to Problems of Taxation and of Railway and Utility Rates', Econometrica, 6 (3), July,...

pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. Energy security issues -- pt. III. Security of energy supply -- pt. IV. Security of energy demand -- pt. V. Energy, the environment and security -- pt. VI. Energy and human security -- pt. VII. Conclusions.

This book fills a gap in the existing literature by dealing with several issues linked to long-term contracts and the efficiency of electricity markets. These include the impact of long-term contracts and vertical integration on effective competition, generation investment in risky markets, and...

The realisation of a European internal market for energy is still a work in progress. Written by leading European scholars and discussed with major energy stakeholders, this book presents a thorough analysis of the motives and methods needed to achieve a single European energy market

This book presents an economic analysis of the main effects of liberalizing the electricity and natural gas markets across Western Europe. It is based on a state-of-the art detailed numerical simulation model that takes account of the interlinkages between different energy markets. Short-run and...