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The European road pricing game: how to enforce optimal pricing in high-transit countries under asymmetric information KU Leuven
A federal government tries to force local governments to implement welfare optimal tolling and investment. Welfare optimal tolling requires charging for marginal external costs. Local governments have an incentive to charge more than the marginal social cost whenever there is transit traffic. We analyse the pricing and investment issue in an asymmetric information setting where the local governments have better information than the federal ...
Optimal urban transport pricing in the presence of congestion, economies of density and costly public funds KU Leuven
Using a numerical model of the urban transportation sector, calibrated to data for Brussels and for London, we calculate the optimal transport price structure and its effect on the transport equilibrium and on welfare. Removing existing subsidies to transit and to parking, internalising transport externalities (mainly congestion) and optimising the frequency of transit service increases welfare by approximately 2%. Optimal prices are higher than ...
Improving inpatient and daycare admission estimates with gravity models Universiteit Gent
Growing healthcare costs have been accompanied by increased policymakers' interest in the efficiency of healthcare systems. Network formation by hospitals as a vehicle for consolidation and achieving economies of scale has emerged as an important topic of conversation among academics and practitioners. Within networks, consolidation of particular specialties or entire campuses is expected and encouraged to take place. This paper describes the ...
Conclusion : reflections and lessons from the pandemic Universiteit Gent
This concluding chapter presents a summary of the research findings in the previous chapters, along with some reflections for each of the five themes of the book and a discussion of necessary future responses (post-pandemic or in the event of a new pandemic) and topics that require further exploration. The pandemic brought into sharp relief pre-existing social disparities and affected vulnerable populations the most. The economic impacts of the ...
Policies to reduce traffic externalities in cities Universiteit Antwerpen
This paper considers various policy measures to reduce traffic externalities in cities, including externality-reducing investments, tolls, emission standards, low emission zones, and bypass capacity to guide traffic around the city center. Using a simple model that distinguishes local and through traffic, we study the optimal use of these instruments by an urban government that cares for the welfare of its inhabitants, and we compare the results ...
Regional LRT as a backbone for the peri-urban landscape in 2050 (Belgium) KU Leuven
By its very definition infrastructure forms the basic framework for the city of 2050. As a more sustainable alternative to the car, public transport has a larger role to play in the future. However, classic PT concepts concentrate on connections in and between city centers, and have not found an answer to the contemporary urban landscape. New concepts such as Light-Rail Transit (LRT) and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) have emerged over the last ...
Ontwerp en handleiding voor de tweede regionale bosinventarisatie van het Vlaamse Gewest Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek
In accordance with Article 41quater of the Flemish Forest Decree (Vlaamse Regering, 1990) the ‘Flemish forest management’ (i.e., the Agency for Nature and Forests, ANF) has to make a sample based inventory of the Flemish forests with an intervening period of at maximum ten years. The target of the inventory is to ‘sustain the forest policy concerning forest protection, extension of the forest area and forest management’. And still in ...
Analysis of urban growth and social segregation: a case study in Kampala (Uganda) KU Leuven
More than half of the world population is at present living in cities. Especially the least developed countries are playing a dominant role in urbanization. The rapid pace of this growth is posing the rather weak urban governments to severe challenges in providing the necessary employment opportunities, services and infrastructure required to comfortably host the growing urban population. Moreover, whereas urban areas are considered as places of ...
Does MaaS address the challenges of multi-modal mothers? User perspectives from Brussels, Belgium Universiteit Antwerpen
In recent years, Mobility as a Service (MaaS) has received considerable attention in transportation research and policy. The MaaS discourse emphasizes its user-oriented nature and flexibility, which, at least in theory, fits well with the more complex mobility patterns of mothers. We use five key perspectives to analyze MaaS and compare this to the existing system and needs of multi-modal mothers: technology, transportation, economics, subject ...