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Cost Recovery from Congestion Tolls with Long-run Uncertainty

Lindsey, Robin; Palma, André De - HAL - 2013

According to the seminal Cost Recovery Theorem the revenues from congestion tolls pay for the capacity costs of an …

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Comparison of two dynamic transportation models: The case of Stockholm congestion charging

Engelson, Leonid; Kristoffersson, Ida; Saifuzzaman, Mohammad - HAL - 2013

This paper reviews the transportation models used for predicting impacts of congestion charging in European cities and carries out in-depth comparison of two such models, METROPOLIS and SILVESTER. Both are mesoscopic dynamic models involving modal split, route choice and departure time choice...

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Traffic Congestion Pricing Methods and Technologies

Palma, André De; Lindsey, Robin - HAL - 2009

This paper reviews the methods and technologies for congestion pricing of roads. Congestion tolls can be implemented at … scales ranging from individual lanes on single links to national road networks. Tolls can be differentiated by time of day …

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Tradable driving rights in urban areas: their potential for tackling congestion and traffic-related pollution

Raux, Charles - HAL - 2007

Congestion pricing as a transport demand management measure is difficult to implement because most of motorists expect a deterioration of their welfare. Tradable driving rights (TDR), that is allocating quotas of driving rights for free to urban inhabitants, could be a more acceptable...

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Comparison of Hiring and Promotion Criteria Linked to Teaching, Educational Development and Professional Engineering Skills

THEODORSDOTTIR, Asdis Hlokk; SAEMUNDSDOTTIR, Ingunn; … - HAL - 2013

professional engineering experience. To support the implementation of CDIO standards 9 and 10, excellence in teaching and … progressive educational development based on engineering experience must be acknowledged and rewarded. This paper compares hiring …

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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2008

, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …

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Is a public regulation of food price volatility feasible in Africa? An arch approach in Kenya

D'Hôtel, Elodie Maître; Cotty, Tristan Le; Jayne, Thomas - HAL - 2012

The 2007-2008 food crisis and current food price swings led economists to re-evaluate the potential for policy … policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the … tradition of public intervention, and by the persistence of highly volatile prices. The consistency of the policy use appears to …

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A consensus model of political decision-making

Swart, Harrie De; Eklund, Patrik; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - HAL - 2008

government is deﬁned as a pair consisting of a winning coalition and a policy supported by this coalition, where a policy … allow the criteria to be of unequal importance to a party. These criteria concern winning coalitions and policy issues …

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Acceptability factors to transport policy changes

Raux, Charles; Souche, Stéphanie - HAL - 2000

The authors have set out an analytical framework of the acceptability of pricing changes in the transport sector. This framework combines the dimensions of economic efficiency (to manage the demand efficiently), territorial equity (guarantee of accessibility), horizontal equity (user-pays...

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Around the World of cotton issues in ten months: a guide for navigation

Fok, Michel; Gourirand, Monica-Barbro - HAL - 2008

Cotton sectors are facing many issues which are quite well reported by online newspapers. Many issues are internal to the running of cotton sectors. They are little related to the international issue of market distortion, pertaining to the "cotton file" of the WTO. A number of issues impeding...

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