Taxation of passenger motor vehicles with environmental aspect

Reducing risks to children in vehicles with passenger airbags.

This review examines the risk that passenger airbags pose for children and discusses behavioral and technologic measures aimed at protecting children from airbag deployment. Although airbags reduce fatal crash injuries among adult drivers and passengers, this safety technology increases mortality risk among children younger than age 12. The magnitude of the risk is multiplied when children are ...

The Rebound Effect for Passenger Vehicles

Increasingly stringent fuel economy standards will reduce per-mile driving costs and may raise vehicle miles traveled, which is referred to as the rebound effect. All previous estimates impose at least one of three behavioral assumptions: (a) fuel economy is uncorrelated with other vehicle attributes; (b) fuel economy is uncorrelated with attributes of other vehicles owned by the household; and...

Pedestrian crashes: higher injury severity and mortality rate for light truck vehicles compared with passenger vehicles.

INTRODUCTION During the last two decades changes in vehicle design and increase in the number of the light truck vehicles (LTVs) and vans have led to changes in pedestrian injury profile. Due to the dynamic nature of the pedestrian crashes biomechanical aspects of collisions can be better evaluated in field studies. DESIGN AND SETTING s: The Pedestrian Crash Data Study, conducted from 1994 to...

Environmental Taxation and Redistribution Concerns

Environmental Protection and Optimal Taxation

This paper brings together applied analysis under simplifying assumption and new research on principles for environmental protection when government is costly. The cost effectiveness analysisthe ranking in the control cost curveapplies under optimal taxation in the more general case, but the optimal environmental quality is adjusted.