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  • Publications // 27.05.2024

    examines the support of different groups of climate-related (passenger) transport policy measures targeting vehicle use, public transport, air travel, and bicycle use. Our descriptive analysis reveals that [...] that pull policy measures (e.g. the financial support of public transport) are more strongly supported in both countries than push policy measures (e.g. the increase in taxes on flight tickets). Furthermore [...] 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 // 08.05.2023

    interplay between autonomous transportation, carpooling, and road pricing. They discuss how improvements in these technologies, and interactions among them, will affect transportation markets. Their main results [...] driving, road capacity, and commuter preferences. An important component of the efficient outcome is the socially optimal matching of carpooling riders. The authors' approaches show how to set road prices

  • Press Releases // 04.05.2022

    work most frequently in the postal and warehousing industry (170,000 employees), as drivers in road transport (107,000) and in cleaning (102,000), according to the results of a ZEW expert brief published

  • Press Releases // 30.12.2021

    low profile regarding the introduction of a European emissions trading system for fuels used in road transport and buildings. This system is a key component of the EU Commission’s plans to achieve Europe’s

  • Publications // 15.07.2021

    a second emissions trading system in Europe that integrates other sectors like buildings and road transport. This addresses some of the inefficiencies of the existing, fragmented EU carbon markets, but [...] 61.6 per cent are possible if an even larger emissions budget is allocated to the buildings and transport sectors. Given the difficulties to politically determine the allocation of the EU climate budget

  • Press Releases // 14.07.2021

    trading system is an important step in the right direction, because it integrates sectors such as road transport and buildings into emissions trading that have not been covered so far,” says Professor Sebastian

  • News // 11.09.2019

    German Federal Government’s climate cabinet should work to extend European emissions trading to the transport and heating sectors. The first step should be to introduce emissions markets in these sectors throughout [...] 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

  • Press Releases // 05.06.2019

    directly connected to the Rotterdam-Genoa freight corridor, which is the most important European transport route, generating the highest turnover in Europe. The Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region’s export [...] especially since the People’s Republic and the investment in the infrastructure project “New Silk Road” are of great economic and strategic significance for both Mannheim and local companies. The mayor

  • Press Releases // 20.05.2019

    Against the backdrop of the current transport policy debate, researchers at the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research emphasise that the problem of traffic-related issues in city centres [...] Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, which advocates that market-oriented solutions be pursued in transport policy. - In spring 2018, a research team from ZEW, the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and [...] 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

  • Publications // 14.03.2019

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