Road pricing, traffic congestion and the environment : issues of efficiency and social feasibility / edited by Kenneth Button and Erik T. Verhoef.
Contributor(s): Button, Kenneth
| Verhoef, Erik T.
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BookPublisher: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 1998Description: xiii, 316 p. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 1858983657.Subject(s): Roads -- Finance | Urban transportation policy | Traffic congestion | Transportation, Automotive -- Environmental aspectsDDC classification: 388.11 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The majority of societies are facing a conflict between the increasing levels of road traffic congestion, especially during peak hours and in urban areas, and a decline in the social acceptability of road expansion. This has led governments as well as non-governmental organizations to consider other methods of reducing road traffic. This book examines the efficiency and feasibility of the regulation of road traffic congestion in theory and practice, and within the context of social and political feasibility.
As long ago as the 1920s it was recognized that road pricing offered an efficient means of handling congested road traffic flows. Since then the severity of traffic congestion has increased so dramatically that it has turned the matter from an academic interest into one of the most serious problems affecting urbanized areas and transport arteries today. Increasing transport levels have other important external costs such as environmental effects, noise annoyance and accidents. As a result the need to find effective means of relieving congestion has become an important issue both at the national and local level. This book examines Pigouvian taxes, the most popular policy prescription among economists, as well as considering a variety of other policies which may be more politically and socially acceptable. The contributors discuss alternatives to Pigouvian taxes, as well as congestion and urban development, congestion pricing and road infrastructure investment, and road pricing and urban sustainability.
This important and timely book will become an essential reference source for policymakers at the national and local level as well as academics and postgraduate students interested in transport economics and environmental economics.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Theory and practice before and after PIGOU -- Part II: Efficiency aspects and second-best policies -- Part III: Political and social feasibility.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures (p. vii)
- List of tables (p. ix)
- List of contributors (p. xi)
- Preface (p. xiii)
- Part I Theory and Practice Before and After Pigou
- 1 Introduction (p. 3)
- 2 Road pricing in practice (p. 14)
- 3 Congestion pricing and road investment (p. 39)
- 4 Recent developments in the bottleneck model (p. 79)
- Part II Efficiency Aspects and Second-Best Policies
- 5 Road pricing and the alternatives for controlling road traffic congestion (p. 113)
- 6 Variabilization of car taxes and externalities (p. 136)
- 7 What is the scope for environmental road pricing? (p. 150)
- 8 Urban transport externalities and Pigouvian taxes: a network approach (p. 171)
- 9 The economics of information and pricing in transport networks with stochastic congestion (p. 190)
- Part III Political and Social Feasibility
- 10 Road pricing for congestion management: the transition from theory to policy (p. 213)
- 11 The equity impacts of road congestion pricing (p. 247)
- 12 Urban road pricing: public acceptability and barriers to implementation (p. 263)
- 13 Social feasibility of policies to reduce externalities in transport (p. 285)
- Index (p. 309)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Richard Arnott: Department of Economics, Boston CollegeChang-Hee Christine Bae: Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington
Kenneth J. Button: The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University
Andre de Palma: Departement des Sciences Economiques, Universite de Cergy Pontoise
Richard H.M. Emmerink: McKinsey and Company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez: John F. Kennedy School of Government and Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Timothy D. Hau: School of Economics and Finance, The University of Hong Kong
Olof Johansson-Stenman: Department of Economics, Gothenburg University
Peter Jones: Transport Studies Group, University of Westminster
David M. Levinson: Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Robin Lindsey: Department of Economics, University of Alberta
Peter Nijkamp: Department of Spatial Economics, Free University
Stef Proost: Center for Economic Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Harry W. Richardson: School of Urban Planning and Development, University of Southern California
Piet Rietveld: Department of Spatial Economics, Free University
Daniel Shefer: Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Kenneth A. Small: Department of Economics, University of California at Irvine
Thomas Sterner: Department of Economics, Gothenburg University
Kurt Van Dender: Center for Economic Studies, Katholieke Universiteit
Erik T. Verhoef: Department of Spatial Economics, Free University