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Transport Infrastructure, Productivity and Employment

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Modelling the Economy and the Environment

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Transport is one of the sources of environmental damage, both at the local level (noise, landscape deterioration), the national and continental level (air pollution) and the global level (greenhouse effect of C02 emissions). These negative externalities have received considerable interest during the last decades. Various taxation schemes (petrol taxes, car ownership taxes, parking tariffs) have been proposed and developed to correct for these externalities. At the same time efforts have been made to be sure that investment decisions in the transport sector are made in such a way that environmental issues receive the weight they deserve. This has led to the development of tools such as environmental impact assessment, and evaluation instruments such as social cost benefit analysis and multi-criteria analysis. In many countries the use of these tools is a required element in the preparation of large investment projects, including transport infrastructure investments.

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  1. Faculty of Economics Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, NL-1081, HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Piet Rietveld

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  1. Institute of Local Government Studies, AKF, Nyropsgade 37, DK-1602, Copenhagen V, Denmark

    Bjarne Madsen (Director of Research) (Director of Research)

  2. Institute of Political Science, University of Aarhus, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark

    Chris Jensen-Butler

  3. Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Nørregade 10, DK-1017, Copenhagen K, Denmark

    Jørgen Birk Mortensen

  4. Institute of Local Government Studies, AKF, Nyropsgade 37, DK-1602, Copenhagen V, Denmark

    Anne M. Bruun Christensen

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Rietveld, P. (1996). Transport Infrastructure, Productivity and Employment. In: Madsen, B., Jensen-Butler, C., Mortensen, J.B., Christensen, A.M.B. (eds) Modelling the Economy and the Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61128-5_3

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