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July 11th 2019

Handbook on the external costs of transport : version 2019.

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INFRAS, Fermi, Francesca, Schroten, Arno, Parolin, Riccardo, Brambilla, Marco, El Beyrouty, Kareen, Fiorello, David, Bieler, Cuno, Ricardo, Maffii, Silvia, Wijngaarden, Lisanne van, TRT, Sutter, Daniel, Essen, Huib van, CE Delft and Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (European Commission)
This updated Handbook on external costs of transport has been developed in the study ‘Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Charging and Internalisation of Transport Externalities’ commissioned by the European Commission DG MOVE, by a consortium led by CE Delft. The objective of this study is to assess the extent to which the ‘user pays’ and the ‘polluter pays’ principles are implemented in EU Member States and in other developed countries. This will allow DG MOVE to take stock of the progress of Member States towards the goal of full internalisation of external (and infrastructure) costs of transport and to identify options for further internalisation. The full list of deliverables of this study are: — Handbook on external costs – version 2019 (current report) : This report provides an overview of the methodologies and input values that can be used to provide state-of-the-art estimates for all main external costs of transport. Furthermore, the report and corresponding excel file present the...

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MI-05-18-051-EN-N
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10.2832/27212
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9789279969171

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Air pollution Traffic collision Transport Social cost Cost Traffic flow Externality Risk Pollution Train Valuation (finance) Market (economics) Traffic congestion European emission standards Insurance Car Shadow price Traffic Gross domestic product Particulates Consumer price index Emission intensity European Union Road Economy Economics Atmospheric dispersion modeling Research Tax Willingness to pay

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