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Why experience changes attitudes to congestion pricing: the case of Gothenburg
Börjesson, Maria; Eliasson, Jonas; Hamilton, Carl - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2014
Many cities have seen public support for congestion charges increase substantially after charges have been introduced. Several alternative explanations of this phenomenon have been suggested, but so far little evidence has been available to assess the relative importance of these explanations....
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The inefficiency of marginal cost pricing on roads
Grahn-Voorneveld, Sofia - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2014
The economic principle of road pricing is that a road toll should equal the marginal cost imposed by an additional user, since this will lead to efficient use of the transport facility. However, when the road is used by traffic both from the road providing region as well as by traffic from...
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Costs for Swedish public transport authorities in tendered bus contracts
Vigren, Andreas - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2014
The main objective of this paper is to investigate how different factors affect costs for Swedish Public Transport Authorities (PTA). A theoretical framework is presented for the empirics, a cross sectional regression analysis with cost and supply data from 20 Swedish counties for the year 2012....
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The Stockholm congestion pricing syndrome: how congestion charges went from unthinkable to uncontroversial
Eliasson, Jonas - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2014
Congestion pricing was introduced in Stockholm 2006, first as a trial followed by a referendum, and permanently from 2007. Public attitudes to the charges became more negative during the period from the decision to the start of the system. Once the system started, public attitudes became...
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Reforming the taxation of vehicle use and ownership: an overview of papers presented at the CTS symposium 18-19 September 2014
Proost, Stef; van Dender, Kurt; Eliasson, Jonas - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2015
In many economies, motor fuel taxes have long been the main instruments for generating tax revenues from the transport sector. Nowadays they are also rationalized on the grounds of reducing congestion, carbon emissions, local air pollution, energy dependency, and sometimes accident costs....
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Is sustainable transport policy sustainable?
Eliasson, Jonas; Proost, Stef - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2014
The paper challenges the existing sustainable transport literature. Most sustainable transport plans focus on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in either one region or country and this neglects two handicaps of strong unilateral action. The first is that climate is a global commons...
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The value of time and external benefits in bicycle appraisal
Börjesson, Maria; Eliasson, Jonas - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2011
of cycling investments. Cyclists’ value of travel time savings turns out to be high, considerably higher than the value … account when making their travel choices, implying that it would be double-counting to add total health benefits to the … results suggest that bicycle should be viewed as a competitive mode of travel and not primarily as a means to achieve improved …
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Vad skulle likabehandling av alla transportslag innebära för kustsjöfarten, miljön och behovet av infrastrukturinvesteringar?
Kågeson, Per - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2011
The cost of short-sea shipping on the seas surrounding Sweden will increase considerably after 2015 as a result of the introduction of stringent emission limits on NOx and sulphur. This may give trucks and trains an upper hand in market segments where customers can choose between sea transport...
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Options for Europe when acting alone on CO2 emissions from shipping
Kågeson, Per - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2011
This paper was prepared as a contribution to the Working Group on Ships of the European Union's European Climate Change Programme (ECCP) and presented on 22–23 June 2011 at the second meeting of the group. It discusses various options that may be considered by the EU when contemplating, in the...
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The financial implications of a Levy & GHG Fund
Kågeson, Per - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2011
This paper reviews the financial capabilities of a Levy on carbon dioxide emissions from international shipping as proposed in the International Maritime Organization (IMO) by Cyprus, Denmark, the Marshall Islands and Nigeria. The conclusion is that a relatively high levy would be required to...
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