Environment and Transport in Economic Modelling

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction: Modelling Environment and Transport

   • Roberto Roson, Kenneth A. Small

   Pages 1-9

3. Optimal Pricing and Regulation of Transport Externalities: A Welfare Comparison of Some Policy Alternatives

   • Bruno De Borger, Didier Swysen

   Pages 10-38

4. Revealed Preferences, Externalities and Optimal Pricing for Urban Transportation

   • Roberto Roson

   Pages 39-60

5. Environmental effects and scale economies in transport modelling: some results for the UK

   • John Peirson, Roger Vickerman

   Pages 61-75

6. Carbon Emissions and the Economic Costs of Transport Policy in Sweden

   • Glenn W. Harrison, Bengt Kriström

   Pages 76-117

7. Evaluating External Costs and Benefits Resulting from a Cleaner Environment in a Stylized CGE Model

   • Giancarlo Pireddu

   Pages 118-151

8. Economic Incentive Policies under Uncertainty: The Case of Vehicle Emission Fees

   • Winston Harrington, Virginia McConnell, Anna Alberini

   Pages 152-182

9. Forecasting the Environmental Effects of Road Pricing in London

   • John Bates

   Pages 183-205

10. Optimal Speed Limits for Various Types of Roads: A Social Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Netherlands

    • Piet Rietveld, Arjan van Binsbergen, Theo Schoemaker, Paul Peeters

    Pages 206-225

11. Back Matter

    Pages 226-234

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The analysis of the relationship between transport and environmental policy invites an interdisciplinary treatment and a variety of approaches, and rightly so. An important subset of the approaches used involves economic analysis. Economic approaches often consider pricing policies, attempting to evaluate their effectiveness in comparison with more traditional measures such as `command and control' regulation and directed technological innovation. Another important subset of approaches involves simulation modelling, where key relationships are presented mathematically so that their influence can be quantified and their interrelationships discerned precisely. This book treats the intersection of these two subsets: simulation models with a strong economic content. This intersection defines a broad but powerful way to study environment and transport. Its breadth is illustrated by the wide range of policies treated here, from carbon taxes to speed limits. Its power derives from the way insights into interrelated actions and the role of markets - the strong points of economic theory - are cast into a form suitable for making quantitative predictions about the results of policies.
Case studies are used to show how simulation models can be designed and used to quantify the effectiveness of economic policies in terms of transport systems management and environmental protection, the emphasis being on the role of the markets in tracing the many effects that policies have, both anticipated and otherwise.

• Import
• environment
• environmental policy
• environmental protection
• transport
• transport policy
• transportation

• Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy

  Roberto Roson

• Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine, USA

  Kenneth A. Small

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