Transport policy competition between governments: A selective survey of the literature

B De Borger, S Proost - Economics of Transportation, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, we provide a selective survey of the recent literature that deals with transport
policy competition between governments. The paper shows the potential relevance of …

Traffic externalities in cities: the economics of speed bumps, low emission zones and city bypasses

B De Borger, S Proost - Journal of Urban Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper considers various policy measures that governments can use to reduce traffic
externalities in cities. Unlike much of the available literature that emphasized congestion, we …

Decentralization and spillovers: A new role for transportation infrastructure

C Feder - Economics of Transportation, 2018 - Elsevier
Inter-regional spillovers of local public goods are the main cause of decentralization failure.
Assuming that the quality of transportation infrastructure policy affects the strength of inter …

Decentralized road investment and pricing in a congested, multi-jurisdictional city: Efficiency with spillovers

JK Brueckner - National Tax Journal, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper shows that the inefficiency of fiscal decentralization in the presence of spillovers,
a main tenet of the decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation …

Achieving political acceptability for new transport infrastructure in congested urban regions

J Westin, JP Franklin, S Proost, P Basck… - … Research Part A: Policy …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the efficiency and political acceptability of road pricing and
infrastructure policies targeted at relieving urban congestion. It combines a stylized transport …

[HTML][HTML] Race to the top in traffic calming

S Proost, J Westin - Papers in regional science, 2017 - Elsevier
We study the competition of two suburbs facing transit traffic flows. The suburbs are
substitutes for transit traffic. In the absence of toll measures, the symmetric Nash equilibrium …

[PDF][PDF] Scandinavian toll cordons' effects: adaptations, equity and attitudes

J Franklin, J Eliasson, M Börjesson… - Final report from …, 2016 - transportportal.se
Roadway tolls are seeing increasing use in metropolitan areas worldwide, motivated first by
increasing reliance on user fees to finance maintenance and expansion of transport …

Aspectos metodológicos en el vínculo entre recursos naturales y logística regional

L García Alonso - 2017 - repositorio.cepal.org
En este documento se analiza el vínculo entre recursos naturales e integración regional,
aspecto de suma importancia para América Latina y el Caribe, dado que la integración …

[PDF][PDF] Policy insights and insights for sustainability

S Proost, S Van der Loo - 2013 - sustaincity.ethz.ch
In this deliverable we propose a unified and integrated framework to evaluate policies in
UrbanSim and propose a set of policies that can be applied on three case studies, Paris …

Decentralized Road Investment and Pricing in a Monocentric, Multi-Jurisdictional City: Efficiency with Spillovers

JK Brueckner - 2013 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper shows that the inefficiency of fiscal decentralization in the presence of spillovers,
a main tenet of the decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation …