The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Contributions to Theory, Method and Measurement

ISBN-13: 9783540631231 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 408 str.

David L. Greene; Mark A. Delucchi; Donald W. Jones

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Modern transportation systems have pervasive and far-reaching effects on society and the environment. Mobility and other benefits of modern transportation arrive with many, serious undesired consequences: deaths and injuries in transport accidents, pollution of air, water and groundwater, noise congestion, greenhouse gas emissions etc. Governments and markets both play critical roles in providing infrastructure and operating and policing transportation systems. As world transport systems expand and become increasingly motorized, the transportation community is searching for transportation systems that are both efficient and sustainable.In this book leading international researchers explore the issues and concepts and define the state of knowledge concerning transportation's full costs and benefi

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The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues.- The Annualized Social Cost of Motor-Vehicle Use in the U. S., Based on 1990–1991 Data: Summary of Theory, Data, Methods, and Results.- Full Social Cost of Transportation in Europe.- Uses and Meanings of Full Social Cost Estimates.- Estimating Whether Transport Users Pay Their Way: The State of the Art.- Externalities, Prices and Taxes: Second Best Issues in Transportation.- Efficient Use and Provision of Transportation Infrastructure with Imperfect Pricing: Second Best Rules.- Benefits and External Benefits of Transport: A Spatial View.- Behavioral Value of Travel Time Savings in Personal and Commercial Automobile Travel.- Societal Costs of Transportation Crashes.- Congestion Cost and Congestion Pricing.- Transportation and Air Pollution: The Environmental Damages.- Employer-Paid Parking: A Nationwide Survey of Employers’ Parking Subsidy Policies.- Full Benefits and Costs of Transportation: Review and Prospects.