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No. 2011/26 | 29 Sept 2011 |
Accident Cost, Speed and Vehicle Mass Externalities, and Insurance
Traffic accidents are a human tragedy that kills 1.2 million people worldwide annually (World Health Organization, 2004). The cost of traffic accidents are huge and recent estimates for US alone suggest the cost to be USD 433 billion in year 2000 or... |
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No. 2011/25 | 20 Sept 2011 |
Road Safety and Insurance Markets Overview
Road trauma is the biggest killer of young people in the world. Reductions in the incidence and severity of road related trauma is of paramount importance to society, aimed at reducing the personal and economic burden to injured people and flow-on... |
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No. 2011/24 | 20 Sept 2011 |
Road Safety
The Transport Accident Commission of Victoria (TAC) was established, and is governed by, the Transport Accident Act 1986. The TAC administers a comprehensive no-fault compensation scheme for Victorians who are injured or die as a result of a... |
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No. 2011/23 | 26 Oct 2011 |
Pay-as-you-Drive Vehicle Insurance as a Tool to Reduce Crash Risk
In this paper, we provide an extensive summary of a field experiment we have recently conducted on the behavioural effects of pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) vehicle insurance (Bolderdijk et al., 2011a). We start with a review of the rationale for PAYD... |
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No. 2011/22 | 18 Oct 2011 |
A Framework for Assessing the Marginal External Accident Cost of Road Use and its Implications for Insurance Ratemaking
The external accident cost of road use is a function of the marginal relationship between road use and accidents, as expressed, for instance, by the elasticity. This elasticity is, however, not necessarily constant, but may be assumed to depend on... |
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No. 2011/20 | 01 May 2011 |
Public Acceptability of Sustainable Transport Measures
Increasingly, the debate on transport policy involves the challenge of sustainable development. The concept of sustainable transport is derived from the general term of sustainable development. Sustainable transportation can be considered by... |
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No. 2011/19 | 01 May 2011 |
Equitable Access: Remote and Rural Communities 'Transport Needs'
Transport in rural and remote regions receives considerable attention in research, but this is often focussed on specific means of resolving problems in those regions – for example, the role of demand-responsive bus services, or scope for attracting... |
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No. 2011/18 | 01 May 2011 |
Key Mobility Challenges in Indian Cities
The existing modal share in Indian cities is in favor of Non-motorized transport (NMT) and public transport. However given the hostile conditions for public transport and increasing risk to pedestrians and cyclists, the use of personal motorized... |
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No. 2011/17 | 01 May 2011 |
State Roles in Providing Affordable Mass Transport Services for Low-Income Residents
Governments support urban mass transport services worldwide under the guise of helping the poor and improving the environment. With more and more governments cash-strapped and facing budgetary shortfalls in other vital areas, the fiscal burdens of... |
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No. 2011/16 | 01 May 2011 |
What Does Improved Fuel Economy Cost Consumers and What Does it Cost Taxpayers?
“Green growth” is an emerging paradigm that integrates several policy aspirations, including the durability of economic activity, reduced environmental impacts, and sustained growth in high-quality employment in such a way as to foster coherent,... |
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No. 2011/14 | 01 May 2011 |
Implementing Sustainable Urban Travel Policies in Mexico
This report describes the main challenges to urban travel in Mexico. We focus on some of the basic causes of urban transport problems, and we analyze some urban travel policies that could be considered good practices towards sustainable urban... |
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No. 2011/13 | 01 May 2011 |
Air Transport Services in Remote Regions
The need for public support. The existing programs for public support have been made with reference to the need for essential air transport services for providing local communities with lifeline transport services. However, the criteria for giving... |
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No. 2011/12 | 01 May 2011 |
Implementing Sustainable Urban Travel Policies in China
Urban transport will have a great impact on sustainable development. China is now the leading producer of motorized vehicles, and people have gradually realized that we cannot sustain endless motorization. China has adopted a sustainable development... |
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No. 2011/11 | 01 Apr 2011 |
Transport et parité des sexes
Alors que la prise en compte du genre progresse dans différents domaines, elle peine à pénétrer le secteur des transports. Or, que ce soit dans les pays développés ou dans ceux en voie de développement, nos sociétés sont sexuées en ce sens que la... |
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No. 2011/11 | 01 Apr 2011 |
Gender and Transport
While greater account is increasingly being taken of gender in a variety of areas, little progress has been made in this respect in the transport sector. In both developed and developing countries, our societies are gendered in that women and men... |
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No. 2011/10 | 01 Apr 2011 |
Meeting Society's Transport Needs under Tight Budgets
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, both the private and public sectors face stringent constraints in funding for transport infrastructure investment and transport services. At the same time, economic recession highlights the social value... |
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No. 2011/09 | 01 Apr 2011 |
Economic Perspectives on Transport And Equality
Poverty, inequality and social exclusion are closely tied to personal mobility and the accessibility of goods and services. Evidence of the economic role of transport in promoting better living standards and greater wellbeing can be seen in the... |
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No. 2011/07 | 01 Apr 2011 |
A Delicate Balance: Mobility and Access Needs, Expectations and Costs
Mobility has been central to economic development and social progress in the modern era. There is emerging evidence, however, that personal daily travel has recently ceased to grow in developed economies. The historic increase in mobility served to... |
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No. 2011/06 | 01 May 2011 |
Perspectives from Mexico to Achieve More with Less
The discussion presented below focuses on improving the decision-making process as the true challenge of mobility we face. It proposes a way of thinking about some of the key topics within each of the layers involved in decision-making at the... |
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No. 2011/05 | 01 Apr 2011 |
Mobility: Rights, Obligations and Equity in an Ageing Society
Demographic trends worldwide indicate significant increases in the number of older people in the population in the coming years. There is a close link between age and disability, and the longer people live the more likely they are to become disabled... |
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Accident Cost, Speed and Vehicle Mass Externalities, and Insurance
Lars Hultkrantz and Gunnar Lindberg
29 Sept 2011
Traffic accidents are a human tragedy that kills 1.2 million people worldwide annually (World Health Organization, 2004). The cost of traffic accidents are huge and recent estimates for US alone suggest the cost to be USD 433 billion in year 2000 or...
Road Safety and Insurance Markets Overview
Andrew Fronsko
20 Sept 2011
Road trauma is the biggest killer of young people in the world. Reductions in the incidence and severity of road related trauma is of paramount importance to society, aimed at reducing the personal and economic burden to injured people and flow-on...
Road Safety
Samantha Cockfield
20 Sept 2011
The Transport Accident Commission of Victoria (TAC) was established, and is governed by, the Transport Accident Act 1986. The TAC administers a comprehensive no-fault compensation scheme for Victorians who are injured or die as a result of a...
Pay-as-you-Drive Vehicle Insurance as a Tool to Reduce Crash Risk
Jan Willem Bolderdijk and Linda Steg
26 Oct 2011
In this paper, we provide an extensive summary of a field experiment we have recently conducted on the behavioural effects of pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) vehicle insurance (Bolderdijk et al., 2011a). We start with a review of the rationale for PAYD...
A Framework for Assessing the Marginal External Accident Cost of Road Use and its Implications for Insurance Ratemaking
Lasse Fridstrøm
18 Oct 2011
The external accident cost of road use is a function of the marginal relationship between road use and accidents, as expressed, for instance, by the elasticity. This elasticity is, however, not necessarily constant, but may be assumed to depend on...
Public Acceptability of Sustainable Transport Measures
Alison Pridmore and Apollonia Miola
01 May 2011
Increasingly, the debate on transport policy involves the challenge of sustainable development. The concept of sustainable transport is derived from the general term of sustainable development. Sustainable transportation can be considered by...
Equitable Access: Remote and Rural Communities 'Transport Needs'
Peter White
01 May 2011
Transport in rural and remote regions receives considerable attention in research, but this is often focussed on specific means of resolving problems in those regions – for example, the role of demand-responsive bus services, or scope for attracting...
Key Mobility Challenges in Indian Cities
Geetam Tiwari
01 May 2011
The existing modal share in Indian cities is in favor of Non-motorized transport (NMT) and public transport. However given the hostile conditions for public transport and increasing risk to pedestrians and cyclists, the use of personal motorized...
State Roles in Providing Affordable Mass Transport Services for Low-Income Residents
Robert Cervero
01 May 2011
Governments support urban mass transport services worldwide under the guise of helping the poor and improving the environment. With more and more governments cash-strapped and facing budgetary shortfalls in other vital areas, the fiscal burdens of...
What Does Improved Fuel Economy Cost Consumers and What Does it Cost Taxpayers?
Kurt van Dender and Philippe Crist
01 May 2011
“Green growth” is an emerging paradigm that integrates several policy aspirations, including the durability of economic activity, reduced environmental impacts, and sustained growth in high-quality employment in such a way as to foster coherent,...
Implementing Sustainable Urban Travel Policies in Mexico
Víctor Islas Rivera, Salvador Hernández G., José A. Arroyo Osorno, Martha Lelis Zaragoza and J. Ignacio Ruvalcaba
01 May 2011
This report describes the main challenges to urban travel in Mexico. We focus on some of the basic causes of urban transport problems, and we analyze some urban travel policies that could be considered good practices towards sustainable urban...
Air Transport Services in Remote Regions
Svein Braathen
01 May 2011
The need for public support. The existing programs for public support have been made with reference to the need for essential air transport services for providing local communities with lifeline transport services. However, the criteria for giving...
Implementing Sustainable Urban Travel Policies in China
Haixiao Pan
01 May 2011
Urban transport will have a great impact on sustainable development. China is now the leading producer of motorized vehicles, and people have gradually realized that we cannot sustain endless motorization. China has adopted a sustainable development...
Transport et parité des sexes
Chantal Duchene
01 Apr 2011
Alors que la prise en compte du genre progresse dans différents domaines, elle peine à pénétrer le secteur des transports. Or, que ce soit dans les pays développés ou dans ceux en voie de développement, nos sociétés sont sexuées en ce sens que la...
Gender and Transport
Chantal Duchene
01 Apr 2011
While greater account is increasingly being taken of gender in a variety of areas, little progress has been made in this respect in the transport sector. In both developed and developing countries, our societies are gendered in that women and men...
Meeting Society's Transport Needs under Tight Budgets
International Transport Forum
01 Apr 2011
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, both the private and public sectors face stringent constraints in funding for transport infrastructure investment and transport services. At the same time, economic recession highlights the social value...
Economic Perspectives on Transport And Equality
David Lewis
01 Apr 2011
Poverty, inequality and social exclusion are closely tied to personal mobility and the accessibility of goods and services. Evidence of the economic role of transport in promoting better living standards and greater wellbeing can be seen in the...
A Delicate Balance: Mobility and Access Needs, Expectations and Costs
David Metz
01 Apr 2011
Mobility has been central to economic development and social progress in the modern era. There is emerging evidence, however, that personal daily travel has recently ceased to grow in developed economies. The historic increase in mobility served to...
Perspectives from Mexico to Achieve More with Less
Adriana Lobo
01 May 2011
The discussion presented below focuses on improving the decision-making process as the true challenge of mobility we face. It proposes a way of thinking about some of the key topics within each of the layers involved in decision-making at the...
Mobility: Rights, Obligations and Equity in an Ageing Society
Ann Frye
01 Apr 2011
Demographic trends worldwide indicate significant increases in the number of older people in the population in the coming years. There is a close link between age and disability, and the longer people live the more likely they are to become disabled...