From a societal perspective, it is desirable for all transportation services to pay their full social (private and external) costs. If the full social cost were reflected in the prices shippers pay, transportation users could choose the amount of each form of service to consume on the basis of the true cost of this service to society. By 'internalizing external costs, policy makers would effectively create a market through which transportation users could weigh the benefits of consuming a particular transportation service against the true costs. The purpose of this monograph is to estimate these true costs for freight truck and rail. The authors estimate four general types of external costs for a ton-mile of freight shipped by truck or rail: accidents (fatalities, injuries, and property damage); emissions (air pollution and greenhouse gases); noise; and unrecovered costs associated with the provision, operation, and maintenance of public facilities (primarily roads and bridges).
External Costs of Truck and Rail Freight Transportation
1998
72 pages
Report
No indication
English
Road Transportation , Railroad Transportation , Air Pollution & Control , Freight transportation , Operating costs , Intermodal transportation systems , Accidents , Trucks , Rail transportation , Fatalities , Injuries , Emission , Noise , Maintenance , Tables(Data) , Economic growth , Air pollution , Highway transportation , Policy making
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