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of the road traffic system and also bind resources. Therefore, apart from ethical aspects, road accidents have an … enormous influence on the social acceptability of road traffic as well as on a country's economic progress. In 2004, the costs … that have been achieved in the past are encouraging - the number of road traffic fatalities is at its lowest since WWII …
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effects of public transit strikes on urban populations in Germany. Due to higher traffic volumes and longer travel times …
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, which would contribute to the improvement of many variables of urban traffic. From this perspective, this paper presents an … cars and motorbikes. Thus, encouraging telecommuting may be interesting to urban traffic management policies in Brazil. …
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Growing vehicle use and congestion externalities have led many to consider alternative congestion pricing mechanisms, as road pricing often has high infrastructural costs and faces public opposition. This paper explores the role of parking taxation in reducing congestion by considering a natural...
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traffic information on traveller behaviour. Specifically, we distinguish between the marginal impact of expected travel times …-phone with traffic information as a reward in our experiment respond to the deviation of actual travel times from the expectation …, which they did not do before. This we interpret as evidence that traffic information indeed affects behaviour. We also find …
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For a quarter century, a top priority in transportation economic theory has been to develop models of rush-hour traffic … dynamics that incorporate traffic jams (hypercongestion). The difficulty has been that "proper" models result in mathematical …
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Transportation accounts for a substantial share of CO2 emissions, and decarbonizing transport will be necessary to limit global warming to below 2°C. Due to persistent reliance on fossil fuels, it is posited that transport is more difficult to decarbonize than other sectors. We test this...
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Air and sea passenger transport were generally considered as serving different market segments with little competition between them. Recent research has however shown that the existence of a deregulated operating framework can lead to improved competition between the two modes. This article aims...
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Growing vehicle use and congestion externalities have led many to consider alternative congestion pricing mechanisms, as road pricing often has high infrastructural costs and faces public opposition. This paper explores the role of parking taxation in reducing congestion by considering a natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485212
of the road traffic system and also bind resources. Therefore, apart from ethical aspects, road accidents have an … enormous influence on the social acceptability of road traffic as well as on a country's economic progress. In 2004, the costs … that have been achieved in the past are encouraging - the number of road traffic fatalities is at its lowest since WWII …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473753