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Title: Pollution and congestion in urban areas: The effects of low emission zones
Author: Bernardo, Valeria
Fageda, Xavier, 1975-
Flores-Fillol, Ricardo
Keywords: Control de la contaminació
Ecologia urbana
Pollution prevention
Urban ecology
Issue Date: 1-Jun-2021
Publisher: Elsevier
Abstract: The great weight that the car has as a means of mobility in large cities generates significant negative externalities both in terms of pollution and congestion. The goal of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of low emission zones (LEZs) and to compare it with the existing results in literature on the effectiveness of urban tolls. First, we build up a theoretical model that departs from De Borger and Proost (2012), who study the effects of urban tolls on congestion, by incorporating pollution into the analysis and LEZs as an alternative (quantity-based) policy measure (...)
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecotra.2021.100221
It is part of: Economics of Transportation, 2021, vol. 26-27, num. 100221, p. 1-19
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/186098
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecotra.2021.100221
ISSN: 2212-0122
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