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2008

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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/62284

Motorways, tolls and road safety. Evidence from European Panel Data

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The use of tolls is being widespread around the world. Its ability to fund infrastructure projects and to solve budget constraints have been the main rationale behind its renewed interest. However, less attention has been payed to the safety effects derived from this policy in a moment of increasing concern on road fatalities. Pricing best infrastructures shifts some drivers onto worse alternative roads usually not prepared to receive high traffic in comparable safety standards. In this paper we provide evidence of the existence of this perverse consequence by using an international European panel in a two way fixed effects estimation.

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Autopistes, Política de transports, Infraestructures (Transport), Política industrial

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Express highways, Transportation and state, Transportation buildings, Industrial policy

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ALBALATE, Daniel and BEL I QUERALT, Germà. Motorways, tolls and road safety. Evidence from European Panel Data. IREA – Working Papers. 2008. Vol.  IR08/02. ISSN 2014-1254. [consulted: 13 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/62284

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