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The Allocation of the Social Costs of Motor-Vehicle Use to Six Classes of Motor Vehicles

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  • Delucchi, Mark A.

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In our analysis of the social cost of motor-vehicle use, many of our data sources, methods, and estimates of cost apply in the first instance to all classes of motor vehicles. For example, we are given, or can estimate from primary data, the following: - total government expenditures on the highways - the air-pollution damage cost of emissions from gasoline service stations - the air-pollution damage cost of emissions of PM10 from re-entrained road dust - highway-patrol expenditures - the cost of garages and parking spaces - the cost of oil spills, per barrel of oil All of these costs pertain to all motor vehicles: all autos, trucks, and buses. Although it can be interesting to estimate the cost of all motor-vehicle use, it typically will be more useful to estimate the cost of different classes of vehicles or of different fuel types, because analysts, policy makers, and regulators typically are interested in specific classes of vehicles, and specific fuels, rather than all motor-vehicles as a group. (For example, pollution regulations are set for individual classes of vehicles, not for all motor vehicles as a class.) Thus, it is useful to carry the analysis of total social cost a step further, and take a cost that initially applies to all motor-vehicles and apportion it to specific vehicle and fuel classes. This report develops such “allocation factors,” which can be used to apportion or disaggregate a total cost to specific vehicle and fuel classes.

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  • Delucchi, Mark A., 1996. "The Allocation of the Social Costs of Motor-Vehicle Use to Six Classes of Motor Vehicles," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt60d6n6hp, University of California Transportation Center.
  • Handle: RePEc:cdl:uctcwp:qt60d6n6hp
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    1. Delucchi, Mark & Murphy, James, 2008. "US military expenditures to protect the use of Persian Gulf oil for motor vehicles," Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series qt0j9561zd, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis.
    2. Delucchi, Mark A. & Murphy, James J., 2008. "US military expenditures to protect the use of Persian Gulf oil for motor vehicles," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 36(6), pages 2253-2264, June.
    3. Harrison, Rob, 2000. "Harmonizing Truck Transportation," Proceedings of the 5th Agricultural and Food Policy Systems Information Workshop, 1999: Policy Harmonization and Adjustment in the North American Agricultural and Food Industry 16804, Farm Foundation, Agricultural and Food Policy Systems Information Workshops.
    4. Murphy, James & Delucchi, Mark & McCubbin, Donald & Kim, H.J., 1999. "The Cost of Crop Damage Caused by Ozone Air Pollution From Motor Vehicles," Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series qt4cv6x16h, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis.
    5. Delucchi, Mark A. & Murphy, James & Kim, Jin & McCubbin, Donald R., 1996. "The Cost of Crop Damage Caused by Ozone Air Pollution From Motor Vehicles," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt1j6730td, University of California Transportation Center.

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