Optimal and Long-Term Dynamic Transport Policy Design: Seeking Maximum Social Welfare through a Pricing Scheme

Guzman, Luis A.; Hoz, Daniel de la; Monzón, Andrés

doi:10.1080/15568318.2012.696772

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“…The results from this iterative process are used for assessing the policy instruments. The MARS model for the case of Madrid was developed and calibrated first time by Guzmán [51], who applied it to maximise the welfare of pricing policies [12]. Later, Wang [52] made some The MARS model for the case of Madrid was developed and calibrated first time by Guzmán [51], who applied it to maximise the welfare of pricing policies [12].…”

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“…The MARS model for the case of Madrid was developed and calibrated first time by Guzmán [51], who applied it to maximise the welfare of pricing policies [12]. Later, Wang [52] made some The MARS model for the case of Madrid was developed and calibrated first time by Guzmán [51], who applied it to maximise the welfare of pricing policies [12]. Later, Wang [52] made some developments in the model, which improved the sensitivity of the model to capture the changes in the accessibility-to-jobs levels produced by transport policies (i.e., [13,53]).…”

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Modelling Land Use and Transport Policies to Measure Their Contribution to Urban Challenges: The Case of Madrid

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Urban areas play a key role in the development of European territories, and it is essential for them to be sustainable and efficient. However, the European cities are facing some challenges related to certain trends that are threatening their sustainable development and operational efficiency. In this paper, we compare the contribution of three policy measures-cordon toll accompanied by public transport improvements, teleworking and re-densification-to address different city challenges. The policy assessment requires a long term simulation tool, i.e., the MARS (Metropolitan Activity Relocation Simulator) model, which is able to consider interactions between land use and transport systems. The simulations of the different policy scenarios were carried out for the case of Madrid in the period 2012-2031. The contribution of the policy measures to address the city challenges was measured through different indicators. The results indicated that the three policy measures contributed to the time efficiency challenge, by saving time for the commute, reducing congestion and improving the traffic flows at peak hours. The most effective policy in this regard is the teleworking measure. Another challenge addressed by the three policies was the accessibility to PT. The three policy scenarios, when simulated, showed higher PT use, especially the cordon toll scenario. However, the only policy that really contributed to the energy, emissions and pollution city challenges was the re-densification measure, which reduced travel distances and encouraged a mobility that relies more on PT and slow modes.

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“…Weights assigned to the CIs to obtain global sustainability scores (CI sust ) were procured from a study carried out by Guzman et al (2014). These authors analysed the opinions of public decision makers, company representatives and researchers involved in transport and urban planning in order to obtain appropriate weights for each sustainability dimension.…”

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Comparative analysis of passenger transport sustainability in European cities

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Monzón

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2015

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Sustainable development in its three dimensions -economic, social and environmental -has become a major concern on an international scale. The problem is global, but must be solved locally. Most of the world's population lives in cities that act as centres of economic growth and productivity, but which -if they develop in the wrong direction -can cause social inequalities, or irreversibly harm the environment. Urban transport causes a number of negative impacts that can affect sustainability targets. The objective of this study is to propose an analysis of sustainability of urban passenger transport systems based on available indicators in most cities. This will serve to benchmark the practices of different cities and manage their transport systems. This work involves the creation of composite indicators (CI) to measure the sustainability of urban passenger transport systems. The methodology is applied to 23 European cities. The indicators are based on a benchmarking approach, and the evaluation of each aspect in each case therefore depends on the performance of the whole sample. The CI enabled us to identify which characteristics have the greatest influence on the sustainability of a city's transport system, and to establish transport policies that could potentially improve its shortcomings. Finally, the cities are clustered according to the values obtained from the CIs, and thus according to the weaknesses and strengths of their transport systems.

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“…Note that the social welfare change should be calculated based on the net effects on users (considering both those users who decide not to travel and the new users who decide to travel after pricing). The loss in social welfare is lower when users decide to travel by switching to public transportation or when they reschedule their trip (than when they decide not to travel), but these changes in travel choices to avoid tolls also convey a reduction in social welfare for those users and consequently for society [4,69]. The social welfare decrease is very important since without such calculations, the analysis might lead to very high toll rates with minimal travel accommodations.…”

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Next Generations of Road Pricing: Social Welfare Enhancing

Rouhani

2016

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This paper offers a broad overview of road pricing from a social welfare perspective. I first examine two common objectives of road pricing: congestion management and profit making. My goal is to provide a guideline explaining how to promote a social-welfare-enhancing road pricing scheme.To this end, we should: (i) consider and improve public transportation systems by providing more environment-friendly transport options; (ii) include tolling profits in our welfare analysis (as opposed to what economists suggest) since residents are the real owners of roads not users, and since some users are from outside the region and so might not be excluded from analysis; and (iii) search for a holistic approach that takes into account system-wide impacts, disutility to users who change their travel behavior (i.e., switch to public transportation, shift their travel, or do not travel at all), and the impacts on land use, employment, and residents.

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Optimal and Long-Term Dynamic Transport Policy Design: Seeking Maximum Social Welfare through a Pricing Scheme

Cited by 27 publications

References 40 publications

Modelling Land Use and Transport Policies to Measure Their Contribution to Urban Challenges: The Case of Madrid

Modelling Land Use and Transport Policies to Measure Their Contribution to Urban Challenges: The Case of Madrid

Comparative analysis of passenger transport sustainability in European cities

Next Generations of Road Pricing: Social Welfare Enhancing

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