Internalisation of external effects in European freight corridors

• Main Authors: Mellin, Anna, Wikberg, Åsa, Karlsson, Rune, Vierth, Inge
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut, Transportekonomi Stockholm, TEK-S 2013
• Subjects: Freight transport; Transport mode; External effect; Cost; Corridor (transp); Europe; Air pollution; Carbon dioxide; Noise; Accident; Congestion (traffic); Wear; Tax; Road transport; Rail bound transport; Maritime transport; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Gunnar; Narvik; Norway
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vti:diva-6812

This project was conducted upon a request from the Swedish Agency for Transport Analysis (Trafikanalys), with a governmental assignment to annually report the rate of internalisation per mode for passenger and freight transports. In its 2013 report, the Agency wishes to show examples of how the marginal costs and the internalising taxes and fees vary within and between European countries. With this background, VTI was given the assignment to analyse ten freight routes in Europe within the Narvik (Norway)–Naples (Italy), and Oslo (Norway)– Rotterdam (the Netherlands) corridors. The corridors were stated in the assignment from the Transport Analysis Agency. During the project, two reference group meetings were held with the following participants: Kenneth Wahlberg (Swedish Transport Administration), Stefan Back (TransportGruppen), Katarina Handel (Swedish Maritime Administration), Gunnar Eriksson (Transport Analysis), Rein Juriado (Vinnova) and Anders Ljungberg (our Transport Analysis contact). Further, Glenn Hakansson (former truck driver) helped out in selecting the routes for the road transports. The authors would like to thank all participants for their helpful comments.