Subject: Transport and the Environment
Organizer: Piet Rietveld (Department of Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam)
Transport is a sector in which externalities are particularly important. It is no coincidence that Pigou's writings on the essence of external costs took a congested road as an example. Since then, massive growth in mobility has caused a dramatic increase in transport related externalities such as congestion, safety risks, noise and environmental emissions. These special sessions are concerned with the economics of transport externalities and sustainability. Papers are especially invited that address one of the following topics:
- valuation of transport externalities;
- first-best and second-best transport policies;
- transport, land-use and environmental interaction;
- commuting, traffic congestion and environmental externalities;
- private versus public operation of transport networks: implications for the regulation of externalities;
- the adaption and diffusion of environmentally-friendly technologies in transport;
- cost-benefit analysis in transport;
- sustainable freight transport and logistics.