Pricing in road transport a multi-disciplinary perspective

Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a mono-disci...

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Main Author: Verhoef, E. T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham Edward Elgar c2008
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a mono-disciplinary perspective. This book shows how a multi-disciplinary approach may lead to new types of analysis and insights, contributing to a better understanding of the intricacies of transport pricing and eventually to a potentially more effective and acceptable design of such policies. The study addresses important policy and research themes such as the possible motives for introducing road transport pricing and potential conflicts between these motives, behavioural responses to transport pricing for households and firms, the modelling of transport pricing, and the acceptability of pricing
pt. 1. Behavioural responses to road pricing -- pt. 2. Modelling effects of transport pricing -- pt. 3. Acceptability of different road pricing policies -- pt. 4. Past and future of road pricing
Physical Description:viii, 327 p ill., maps
ISBN:9781845428600
9781848440258
1845428609