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  • Publication
    A new approach for the freight transportation system in Venice
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2005)
    Libardo, Alessandra
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    Nocera, Silvia
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    Trabucco, Dario
    Venice is worldwide known as one of the most intriguing places, hosting an average of 15 million tourists per year. This paper describes the causes of the economical inefficiency of the freight transportation system in Venice, and analyses the problems caused by the damages done by the waves. A properly modified form of road pricing, aiming at improving the efficiency of the traffic chains by introducing the pressure of competition between the freight operators, is thereby conceived and the possible deriving scenarios are described.
      1297  4232
  • Publication
    The German HGV-Toll
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2005)
    Wieland, Bernhard
    After many delays, technological problems, and renegotiations between the government and the system operator Germany has successfully introduced a satellite based tolling system for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in January 2005. Since then the system is running smoothly. Currently the toll applies only to state motorways (the so called Autobahnen) but there are plans to extend it to the secondary level of federal long-distance roads (the Bundesfernstraßen). This paper describes the political and economic background of the introduction of the HGV-toll in Germany. The paper sketches the history of the implementation process, describes the major structural elements of the toll, and discusses current problems and possible future developments. Finally some policy conclusions are drawn.
      1471  2783
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    Behavioural responses to road pricing. Empirical results from a survey among Dutch car owners
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2005)
    Ubbels, Barry
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    Verhoef, Erik
    This paper presents the results from a questionnaire among Dutch car owners. We have analysed the behavioural responses to three different, policy relevant, road pricing measures. Depending on the type of measure and type of trip affected, we find reductions in the number of car trips of, on average, 11%. A flat kilometre charge affects social trips considerably more than commuting trips. However, when policy makers want to affect peak time (commuting) traffic, a time differentiated measure is more appropriate. Slow traffic and trip suppression are most popular alternatives for non-commuting trips. Departure time changes become very attractive for all purposes when the proposed measure varies over time.
      1356  2078
  • Publication
    A model of residential location choice with endogenous housing prices and traffic for the Paris region
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2005)
    de Palma, André
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    Motamedi, Kiarash
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    Picard, Nathalie
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    Waddell, Paul
    There is a growing interest in the development and the use of large-scale planning models. In this paper, we describe the first step of a project to integrate UrbanSim, a dynamic microsimulation land use model, and METROPOLIS, a dynamic traffic model. This is the first attempt, to our knowledge, to integrate a dynamic land use model and a dynamic traffic model. We briefly describe the two models and propose a unified framework for their integration. Within this integrated framework we develop a model of residential location choice, with endogenous housing prices and traffic. The study area for this research is the Ile-de-France (Paris region), for which we provide empirical results.
      1587  3481
  • Publication
    Recent developments and current policy issues in road pricing in the US and Canada
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2005)
    Lindsey, Robin
    The United States and Canada lag Europe and Singapore in implementing road pricing on a large scale. But the two countries have shown interest in tolling roads as a way to curb congestion and to generate revenues. The US is funding congestion pricing demonstration projects through its Value Pricing Pilot Program, and Canada has examined new ways to charge for road use and to finance road construction and maintenance. This paper reviews the current state of road pricing and funding in the two countries. The prospects for extensive road pricing appear to be brighter in the US than in Canada.
      1263  2493