Social Costs and Sustainable Mobility: Strategies and Experiences in Europe and the United States

ISBN-13: 9783790812602 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 212 str.

Klaus Rennings;Olav Hohmeyer;Richard L. Ottinger

Opis

Fair and efficient pricing has become increasingly important in international environmental and transport policy. Thus the valuation and internalization of social costs is now a crucial element within strategies towards sustainable mobility. The book provides methods and results from major European and American studies evaluating both social costs of transport and first experiences with their internalization in different contexts: infrastructure planning, urban road pricing and highway tolling. Additionally, complementary non-monetary instruments for a transition towards sustainable mobility are presented and discussed.

Spis treści

Introduction: R. Ottinger: Opening Remarks.- W.A.G. Blonk: Fair Payment for Infrastructure Use: White Paper of the European Commission.- G. Ellwanger: External Environmental Costs of Transport.- Valuation Studies: A. Ricci, S. Weinreich: QUITS - Quality Indicators of Transport Systems.- S. Benow, W. Dougherty: The Impacts of the Kyoto Protocol on Full Cost Transportation in the U.S..- M. O'Mahony, S. Proost, K. Van Dender: Optimal Urban Transport Pricing and Sustainability.- Pricing Strategies and Sustainable Mobility: K. Kuchenbecker: Goal Driven Design of a Sustainable Transport System.- T. Litman: Distance-Based Vehicle Insurance - A Practical Strategy for More Optimal Vehicle Pricing.- L. Clement, Y. Crozet, J-M. Gambard: Valuation of Road Pricing on Selected European Roads.- D. Lazare: Constitutional Constraints on Social-Cost Pricing.- R. Kemp, B. Truffer, S. Harms: Strategic Niche Management for Sustainable Mobility.- H. Carson Goddard: Instruments for Attaining Urban Sustainability: The Case for Tradable Vehicle Use Permits.- M. Vougioukas: The TransPrice Project: Experiences with Transport Pricing in Eight European Cities.

O autorze

Richard L. Ottinger is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York, where he taught environmental law and was Dean from 1994-1999. He is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and Chair of its Climate and Energy Working Group. He served for 16 years in the U.S. Congress, chairing the House Subcommittee on Energy, Conservation and Power.