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European governments are increasingly committed to road safety, due to the impact of road accidents in terms of economic loss and as a public health threat. In addition to regulation, providing better road infrastructure is an essential strategy to promote road safety. This paper investigates...
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Are road pricing strategies regressive or progressive? This is a question that has been confronting researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers who seek to implement new mechanisms to raise funds for transportation while simultaneously managing demand. The theoretical literature is mixed, as...
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The use of tolls is being widespread around the world. Its ability to fund infrastructure projects and to solve budget … drivers onto worse alternative roads usually not prepared to receive high traffic in comparable safety standards. In this …
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tolls have been suggested to help finance construction and to manage demand. This paper conducts a preliminary cost …
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Switzerland) have introduced distance-based network tolls for heavy trucks. In Sweden, Denmark and the Benelux states the time … than the Swedish fleet and the vehicle kilometres performed on German roads are cleaner than the vehicle kilometres … performed on Swedish roads. There are spill over effects between the countries in the way that European hauliers have incentives …
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A renewed interest on the use of tolls for funding motorways and regulating their demands has been recovered in the …
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disagree over how to set tolls, how to cover common costs, what to do with any excess revenues, whether and how â …€œlosers†from tolling previously free roads should be compensated, and whether to privatize highways. These disagreements fill a lot …
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The African continent is facing the potential of a US$183.6 billion liability to repair and maintain roads damaged from …
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The authors explore the properties of various types of public and private pricing on a congested road network with heterogenous users allowing for elastic demand. Heterogeneity is reprensented by a continuum of values of time. The network consists of both serial and parallel links, which allows...
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