Highlights The present paper estimates the external cost of private vehicle users and assesses their willingness to shift to public or shared transit in the event of internalization of the external costs. Internalization of external cost will significantly change the travel behavior of private vehicle users. Women travelers are most sensitive towards operating cost of vehicles and are more willing to shift towards public transport if external costs are implied. Income level of individuals had a negative relation with their willingness to shift towards public transport even after internalizing the external cost of private transport.

    Abstract The negative externalities associated with road traffic pose a key challenge to sustainable transportation. With the increase in personalized travel in most cities, there has been an increase in traffic density, resulting in longer travel times, lower average speeds, higher levels of fuel consumption, air and noise pollution, and discomfort for road users. This has put a lot of pressure on policymakers to devise ways for tackling this problem. This problem can be addressed by imposing such external costs on urban private transport users through various types of taxes, surcharges and levies. The present paper makes an attempt to estimate the external costs of urban private transport and explore to what extent urban private transport users shall be either willing to shift to different modes of public transit in the event of internalizationof external costs or shall be willing to pay for the external costs. The objective analysis carried out in this paper in the city of Gurugram in the nation capital region of India is expected to establish the negative externalities of urban private transport and highlight the possible migration to public transit in the event of internalizing the external costs of private transport.


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    Title :

    Internalizing the externalities of urban private transport – A case of Gurugram, national capital Region, India


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2022-08-05


    Size :

    13 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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