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Technical efficiency measurement and explanation of French urban transit companies
KERSTENS, Kristiaan - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888230
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Congestion and tax competition in a parallel network
DE BORGER, Bruno; PROOST, Stef; VAN DENDER, K. - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, …
The purpose of this paper is to study tax competition on a parallel road network when different governments have tolling authority on different links of the network. Reflecting many current situations in Europe, each link is used by both local and transit traffic, and transit has a choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005350909
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Technical efficiency measurement and explanation of French urban transit companies
KERSTENS, Kristiaan - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839947
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Externalities and partial tax reform: Does it make sense to tax road freight (but not passenger) transport?
CALTHROP, Edward; DE BORGER, Bruno; PROOST, Stef - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, …
Externalities such as pollution and road congestion are jointly produced by the use of intermediate inputs by firms and the consumption of final goods by households. Remarkably, to cope with such externalities policy proposals often suggest very partial tax reforms. A pertinent example is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824247
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Optimal congestion taxes in a time allocation model
DE BORGER, Bruno - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2010
The purpose of this paper is to study optimal congestion taxes in a time allocation framework. This makes it possible to distinguish taxes on inputs in the production of car trips and taxes on transport as an activity. Moreover, the model allows us to consider the implications of treating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542553
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The structure of the labour market, telecommuting, and optimal peak period congestion tolls: A numerical optimisation model
DE BORGER, Bruno; WUYTS, Bart - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2010
bargaining models, in which wages are determined via negotiations between firms and labour unions. All models include commuting … and non-commuting transport, and they allow for telecommuting. The models are numerically implemented using Belgian data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526757
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Taxation of car-ownership, car use and public transport: Insight derived from a discrete choice numerical optimisation model
DE BORGER, Bruno; MAYERES, Inge - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, …
In this paper we study the taxation of car ownership, car use and public transport in the presence of externalities within the framework of a discrete/continuous choice model. We first derive optimal taxes in a simplified setting, emphasizing the specific role of fixed car ownership taxes and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588069
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Transport tax reform, commuting and endogenous values of time
DE BORGER, Bruno; VAN DENDER, Kurt - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, …
We consider a model of urban transport with two trip purposes, commuting (assumed perfectly complementary to labour … supply) and non-commuting, to analyse the effects of transport tax reform on the value of time and marginal external … congestion costs. Higher commuting taxes plausibly reduce time values, but higher non-commuting transport prices will typically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588090
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Capacity cost structure, welfare and cost recovery: Are transport infrastructures with high fixed costs a handicap?
DE BORGER, Bruno; DUNKERLEY, Fay; PROOST, Stef - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2008
In this paper, we consider a region that invests in infrastructure used by both local demand and through transport. We then compare transport systems that have, for a given capacity, the same total infrastructure cost but vary in the proportion of fixed costs and variable capacity costs. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588099
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Strategic investment and pricing decisions in a congested transport corridor
DE BORGER, Bruno; DUNKERLEY, Fay; PROOST, Stef - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2006
This paper studies pricing and investment decisions on a congested transport corridor where the elements of the corridor are controlled by different governments. A corridor can be an interstate highway or railway line, or an inter-modal connection. We model the simplest corridor: two transport...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588120