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This study calculates efficient taxes on gasoline and road use designed to combat driving related externalities when … motorists avoid taxes due to an excessive economic driving-style. The efficient tax on gasoline is reduced below the Pigouvian …
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A tax on fuel combined with tax-exemptions or subsidies for purchase of fuel-efficient vehicles is implemented in many countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other negative externalities from road traffic. This study, however, shows that a tax on fuel should be combined with heavier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794128
This study calculates efficient taxes on gasoline and road use designed to combat driving related externalities when … motorists avoid taxes due to an excessive economic driving-style. The efficient tax on gasoline is reduced below the Pigouvian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156698
A tax on fuel combined with tax-exemptions or subsidies for purchase of fuel-efficient vehicles is implemented in many countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other negative externalities from road traffic. This study, however, shows that a tax on fuel should be combined with heavier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774907
Duties and taxes on cars are an important source of revenue for European governments and the tax systems are also … real value has declined by a fifth in real terms. With this in mind, both types of taxes are in need of reform and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011886408
Duties and taxes on cars are an important source of revenue for European governments and the tax systems are also … real value has declined by a fifth in real terms. With this in mind, both types of taxes are in need of reform and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011884128
Although fuel taxes are a practical means of curbing vehicular air pollution, congestion, and accidents in developing … gasoline would be progressive, its effect through spending on diesel—both directly and via bus transportation—would be … bus transportation would be relatively small, albeit regressive. Finally, we find that although the overall effect of a 10 …
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Although fuel taxes are a practical means of curbing vehicular air pollution, congestion, and accidents in developing … gasoline would be progressive, its effect through spending on diesel--both directly and via bus transportation--would be … bus transportation would be relatively small, albeit regressive. Finally, we find that although the overall effect of a 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497174
For presentation at CESifo Venice Summer Institute 2001, Workshop on Environmental Economics and the Economics of Congestion: Coping with Externalities, Venice International University, San Servolo, July 18-19,2001.
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The objective of this study is to determine whether ramp meters increase the capacity of active freeway bottlenecks, and if they do, how. The traffic flow characteristics at twenty-seven active bottlenecks in the Twin Cities have been studied for seven weeks without ramp metering and seven weeks...
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