Transport by private car has been challenged due to its high environmental impacts. Ride sharing (i.e. people with the same routes sharing a car) contributes to sustainable mobility by increasing the capacity use of cars. Still, when arranging ‘Ride Access Points’ (RAPs), intense...

The urban road traffic management planning is a prerequisite for sustainable urban Development and infrastructure that causes the substantial heterogeneity in transport costs and time across road transport modes. The need of the hour is to improve the urban road traffic management plan...

The Spanish Parliament is going to change the regulations concerning crimes against road and traffic safety, soon. Some of these changes are inspired by the legislations of the surrounding countries. This article sets out and analyses the regulations of this kind in France, Italy, Germany and...

Decarbonizing road transport through electrification, public transport, and walking and biking can increase productivity and reduce expenses thanks to reduced traffic and energy efficiency gains. However, governments face losing fuel and vehicle tax revenue. We develop a method to assess options...

One of the main unanswered questions in the field of urban economics is to which extent subsidies to public transit are justified. We examine one of the main benefits of public transit, a reduction in car congestion externalities, the so-called congestion relief benefit, using quasi-natural...

Creation of road transport infrastructure, through its direct and indirect effects, has a bearing on sustainability of growth and overall development of a country. The models based on production or cost functions, that incorporate infrastructure, simply assume a positive effect on macroeconomic...