Titel:
Road pricing is not always green

Abstract:
This paper analyses a tax reform, explicitly conceived by policy makers to be climate-friendly, that partly replaces a high vehicle registration tax by road user charging and allows for differentiation of the remaining registration tax by fuel efficiency. A tight microeconomic framework is proposed to analyze such a reform. For the case of Denmark, the analysis shows that the reform is likely to yield a significant and robust welfare gain. However, it seems not unlikely that CO2 emissions may increase as a result of the reform.

Forfatter:
Thomas Christian Jensen, DTU Transport Mogens Fosgerau, DTU Transport

Danske Keywords:
Kørselsafgifter, trængsel, efterspørgsel, klimagasser

Engelske Keywords:
Road pricing, congestion, demand, climate change

År:
2010

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