Assessing Heavy - Vehicle Accident Rates for Marginal Cost Calculations

Marginal costs of freeway traffic congestion with on-road pollution exposure externality

The health cost of on-road air pollution exposure is a component of traffic marginal costs that has not previously been assessed. The main objective of this paper is to introduce onroad pollution exposure as an externality of traffic, particularly important during traffic congestion when on-road pollution exposure is highest. Marginal private and external cost equations are developed that inclu...

Blood Parameters of Drivers and Road Accidents: A Study of Heavy Vehicle Drivers in Tehran, Iran, 2018

Background: Taking the drivers' health into account from different perspectives is important. This study aimed to examine how heavy vehicle drivers' blood parameters are related to their road accident risk. Materials & Methods: A descriptive study was conducted among 200 drivers of heavy vehicles. The blood parameters were determined based on the medical records of drivers, as well as data on ...

Does Britain or The United States Have the Right Gasoline Tax?

This paper develops an analytical framework for assessing the second-best optimal level of gasoline taxation taking into account unpriced pollution, congestion, and accident externalities, and interactions with the broader fiscal system. We provide calculations of the optimal taxes for the US and the UK under a wide variety of parameter scenarios, with the gasoline tax substituting for a distor...

A framework for assessing the marginal external accident cost of road use and its implications for insurance ratemaking

Noise Charges in Road Traffic: A Pricing Schedule Based on the Marginal Cost Principle ?

One way of mitigating the negative effects of noise from road traffic is to include the external cost of noise in a road charging system. This study shows how standardized calculation methods for road traffic noise can be used together with monetary estimates of the social cost of noise exposure to calculate charges based on the social marginal cost. Using Swedish data on traffic volume and ind...