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• Publications // 27.05.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Self-Interest and Support of Climate-Related Transport Policy Measures: An Empirical Analysis for Citizens in Germany and Sweden

  and Sweden, this paper empirically examines the support of different groups of climate-related (passenger) transport policy measures targeting vehicle use, public transport, air travel, and bicycle use [...] exclusively on conventional fuels are significantly less likely to agree with the introduction of road user charges on highways and especially the sales ban on new gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles
• Events // 02.06.2021

  Machine Learning from Big GPS Data About the Heterogeneous Costs of Congestion

  year. They infer traffic density along the route taken and all potential alternatives to account for the equilibrium responses to rerouting. The identification of the causal effect of traffic density on the [...] presented in this ZEW Research Seminar provides a novel approach to estimate the heterogeneous costs of road congestion and the welfare foregone when failing to differentiate corrective taxes based on 34 million [...] the time cost of travel relies on a new instrumental variable strategy exploiting intra-weekday traffic patterns. The paper presented in this ZEW Research Seminar finds significant temporal heterogeneity
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  Press Releases // 24.01.2020

  ZEW Economist Martin Kesternich on the Speed Limit on Motorways

  could look like using a randomised field experiment to identify the causal effects of a speed limit on road safety. - For a randomised field experiment, a temporary speed limit would have to be introduced on [...] whole year in order to include all seasonal weather conditions in the study. The randomly selected road sections would have to be compared with a control group, i.e. with a corresponding number of comparable [...] with the non-regulated sections, causal conclusions can be drawn – provided that without regulation traffic safety conditions on the two sections would have developed similarly. Such a study could be carried
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  News // 11.09.2019

  Using Market Forces to Protect the Environment

  higher take-off and landing fees, trucks pay a motorway toll because they cause greater wear to the roads, and the motor vehicle tax is linked to consumption. Similarly, economists have long called for the [...] cubic meter of air volume, and automobile manufacturers must reduce the CO2 emissions of their new passenger cars by 37.5 per cent compared to 2021 by 2030. But limits such as these do not address how these
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  Press Releases // 20.05.2019

  ZEW Researchers in Favour of Introducing Congestion Charges in Cities

  Centre for European Economic Research emphasise that the problem of traffic-related issues in city centres, such as air pollution and traffic jams, can be solved efficiently by means of congestion charging [...] abatement. Vehicles with higher emissions would thus pay a higher tariff. “This means that the busier the roads and the more polluted the air, the higher the charge should be. However, the key point here is that
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  News // 17.12.2018

  Significant Coordination Problems May Be Encountered During the Expansion

  obligated to provide 98 per cent of households with 100Mb internet by the end of 2022. Motorways, roads, railways, ports and waterways also have to be supplied with high-speed internet. In addition, providers [...] base stations and ensure household supply, white spot provision, and motorway coverage. For other roads and for railways and waterways, a deduction clause will be invoked. This stipulates that once one [...] area, it will be considered as covered for all providers. Where expansion in rural areas and along traffic routes is concerned, the frequencies that are to be auctioned are unsuitable, since they have poorer
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  News // 05.12.2018

  How to Put E-Mobility on the Roads

  Fröhlich, as soon as driverless vehicles are roadworthy, they will significantly reduce both the traffic volume and number of accidents. At present, 80 per cent of car accidents are caused by human error
• Publications // 04.07.2018

  Refereed Journal - The Amenity Cost of Road Noise

  This paper reports a complete two stage hedonic analysis for road noise. It is based on a large and detailed administrative data set covering 100,000 housing transactions in Copenhagen, Denmark including [...] policy measures: A European standard on noise emissions for tires, and the partial closure of a busy road in central Copenhagen.
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  News // 11.10.2018

  ZEW Workshop on the Challenges and Opportunities for Low Carbon Mobility

  electric mobility and services such as ride-sharing or carpooling, targeted policy instruments such as road pricing schemes need to be developed further in order to reduce emissions in the transport sector [...] participants of the workshop discussed current issues such as the promotion of electric mobility, traffic management in city centres, the growing demand for courier services, necessary measures to improve
• Events // 13.11.2018

  Using Technology to Eliminate Traffic Congestion

  Traffic congestion is a pervasive worldwide problem. We explain how to harness existing technologies together with new methods in time-and-location markets to eradicate traffic congestion along with [...] with its attendant social harms. Our market design for road use builds on congestion pricing and models of efficient pricing in the electricity sector. The market maximizes the value of a transport network [...] network through efficient scheduling, routing and pricing of road use. Privacy and equity concerns are addressed. Transparent price information provides essential information for efficient long-term investment