The transport of road goods across the Alps constitutes a problem both for European transportation and for the Alpine environment. Austria and Switzerland have made a number of attempts to decelerate the growth in lorry transit volume and shift transport onto the rail modes. After ten years,...

We study the impact of fuel taxes and kilometer taxes on households' choices of vehicle quality, on their demand for kilometers driven, and on fuel consumption. Moreover, embedding this information in a model of the car market, we analyze the implications of these taxes for the opportunity costs...

In addition to efficiency standards and consumer information, car-related taxes constitute one of three pillars of the European Commission¿s strategy to reduce CO2 emissions from passenger cars. A longstanding question concerns the effectiveness of such taxes in determining the car-purchasing...

We introduce a new microsimulation model built on household transport data to study the distributional effects of carbon-based fuel taxation of private road transport in Germany. Our data includes annual mileage at the car-level, the distinction between fuel types, as well as car-specific fuel...

In den Jahren 2006 und 2007 ist die Gesamtfahrleistung der in Deutschland zugelassenen Kraftfahrzeuge im Zuge der konjunkturellen Entwicklung insbesondere bei Nutzfahrzeugen leicht gestiegen. Trotz steigender Kraftstoffpreise bewegt sich die Fahrleistung nach wie vor knapp unterhalb von 700...

Trotz der hohen Kraftstoffpreise und des wirtschaftlichen Absturzes im letzten Quartal ist 2008 die Gesamtfahrleistung der in Deutschland zugelassenen Kraftfahrzeuge nur leicht gefallen. Während die Fahrleistung im Güterverkehr noch leicht gestiegen ist, gingen bei den Personenkraftwagen 2008...