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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.
List of contents
I: Introduction.- Opening Remarks.- Fair Payment for Infrastructure Use: White Paper of the European Commission.- External Environmental Costs of Transport - Comparison of Recent Studies.- II: Valuation Studies.- QUITS - Quality Indicators of Transport Systems.- The Impacts of the Kyoto Protocol on Full Cost Transportation in the U.S.- Optimal Urban Transport Pricing and Sustainability.- III: Pricing Strategies and Sustainable Mobility.- Goal Driven Design of a Sustainable Transport System.- Distance-Based Vehicle Insurance - A Practical Strategy for More Optimal Vehicle Pricing.- Valuation of Road Pricing on Selected European Roads.- Constitutional Constraints on Social-Cost Pricing.- Strategic Niche Management for Sustainable Mobility.- Instruments for Attaining Urban Sustainability: The Case for Tradable Vehicle Use Permits.- The TransPrice Project: Experiences with Transport Pricing in Eight European Cities.
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
