The success of Africa's exports, as well as its spatial development, depends on lowering transport costs. In this … Policy Brief, we address a number of pertinent questions on transport costs in Africa, such as 'what are transport costs …?', 'do transport costs matter for trade?', 'how important are transport costs in practice?', and 'why are Africa's transport …

A historical survey of transport to demonstrate that transport has always been recognised as of paramount importance … needed to make transport systems work, and that developments in transport today represent continuity with the past. Also, the … idea that transport is not a purely utilitarian matter, it is also an expression of freedom. [The Worshipful Company of …

concreteness, the focus is on tax reform for freight road transport to cope with congestion externalities; results for other types … of externalities can be derived as special cases. The model takes into account that passenger and freight flows jointly … output markets, including the passenger transport market and the labour market. Moreover, it clearly shows that the welfare …

Parliament in April 2007. The Commission had been asked to inquiry into the costs of freight transport infrastructure on major … pricing of road and rail freight infrastructure to maximise freight transport efficiency and net benefits for the community …The Productivity Commission’s inquiry report into the ‘Road and Rail Freight Infrastructure Pricing’, was tabled in …

Transport currently accounts for around 25-30% of global CO2 emissions and this contribution is growing rapidly …. Moreover, road transport holds by far the major part in these emissions. Because of the social and political reluctance to … increase fuel taxation, it is of some interest to explore the inclusion of road transport in emission trading schemes. Starting …