This paper analyzes the second-best pricing and investment policy for transport networks with a revenue-recycling mechanism in which the toll revenue is used as transport investments or subsidies, as in London’s congestion charging scheme. The results of this paper demonstrate that the way...

Über die Einführung einer Pkw-Maut wird nach der Bundestagswahl heftig diskutiert. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer macht den Vorschlag, die Maut zu nutzen, um damit das gesamte Verkehrssteuersystem zu modernisieren. Sowohl die Schadstoffbelastung als auch die Staugefahr könnte auf diese Weise gelenkt...

The development of toll road infrastructure in Indonesia is very decelerate where from 1500 km that was planned in 2006, but the realization is only 749,12 km operation in 2010, meanwhile the land that will be acquisited in Trans Java toll road is 6,272.84 Ha, but only 1,400 Ha have been...

This paper explores the effect of gasoline prices on traffic congestion and carbon emissions. The international crude oil price is used as an instrumental variable for the gasoline price in Chinese cities. Empirical results show that a ten percent increase in gasoline prices significantly...

This paper reviews issues raised by the use of private firms to finance, build, and/or operate highways — issues including cost of capital, level and structure of tolls, and adaptability to unforeseen changes. The public sector’s apparent advantage in cost of capital is at least partly...

En la UE se ha estimado que los costes de la congestión representan el 2% de su PIB y que el coste de la polución del aire y ruido supera el 0,6% del PIB, siendo alrededor del 90% de los mismos ocasionados por el transporte terrestre. Ante este hecho y el continuo aumento de la demanda del...

Although gasoline taxes have long been the main source of funding for building, maintaining, and operating America’s network of highways, roads, and streets, the tax is at best an imperfect user fee. As such, Congress and the states should take action to transition from gas taxes to more...

This article suggests ways to build toll free national highways in quick time. The expansion of the road network in the future needs huge amount of investment which has to be collected from the users. I suggest that the users are divided into two categories the rich pay and the poor do not. The...

The development of toll road infrastructure in developing countries included Indonesia still slow down. There are many problems to build toll road infrastructure, one of them is financing. The need of toll road infrastructure investment in Indonesia is Rp66,751.95 Billions to build 768.65 km of...