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Optimal environmental road pricing and daily commuting patterns

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  • Coria, Jessica
  • Zhang, Xiao-Bing

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Road pricing can improve air quality by reducing and spreading traffic flows. Nevertheless, air quality does not depend only on traffic flows, but also on pollution dispersion. In this paper we investigate the effects of the temporal variation in pollution dispersion on optimal road pricing, and show that time-varying road pricing is needed to make drivers internalize the social costs of both time-varying congestion and time-varying pollution. To this end, we develop an ecological economics model that takes into account the effects of road pricing on daily commuting patterns. We characterize the optimal road pricing when pollution dispersion varies over the day and analyze its effects on traffic flows, arrival times, and the number of commuters by car.

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  • Coria, Jessica & Zhang, Xiao-Bing, 2017. "Optimal environmental road pricing and daily commuting patterns," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 297-314.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transb:v:105:y:2017:i:c:p:297-314
    DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2017.09.016
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    Keywords

    Air pollution; Road transportation; Road pricing; Pollution dispersion;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
    • R41 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
    • R48 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Government Pricing and Policy

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