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Working Paper 09-19 - Le coût de la congestion du trafic en Belgique
[Working Paper 09-19 - De kosten van verkeerscongestie in België]

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  • Bruno Hoornaert
  • Alex Van Steenbergen

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This paper seeks to quantify the cost of the most important inefficiencies in Belgian transport taxation. To this end we calculate the welfare gain of an ideal, optimal tax/subsidy system across the transport market as a whole (i.e. considering private road traffic in conjunction with public transport). We found the total welfare gain to be 2.3 billion euros, of which 1.3 billion are due to time gains of remaining road users. Our measure lies significantly above those found in the literature, since we consider the distortion cause by a wide range of subsidies.

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  • Bruno Hoornaert & Alex Van Steenbergen, 2019. "Working Paper 09-19 - Le coût de la congestion du trafic en Belgique [Working Paper 09-19 - De kosten van verkeerscongestie in België]," Working Papers 201909, Federal Planning Bureau, Belgium.
    • Handle: RePEc:fpb:wpaper:201909
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    Keywords

    Optimal taxation; Externalities; Traffic Congestion;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
    • H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
    • H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies

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