This book presents the results of the study "Infrastructure Capital, Maintenance and Road Damage Costs for Different Heavy Goods Vehicles in the EU" which was commissioned by the European Commission. This book deals with the calculation of costs for road infrastructure and congestion and the allocation of these costs to vehicle types. It focuses on heavy goods vehicles. This is a topic of high relevance for transport policy both on the national and the EU-level with a long tradition of political and scientific debate. The study contains a comprehensive methodological comparison of existing models for calculating road capital values and capital costs and for allocating infrastructure costs to vehicle types. The study also discusses the issue of estimating marginal infrastructure costs and approaches for estimating the costs of road congestion. For the first time in Europe the impacts of different national approaches applied in EU-member states on the quantitative results and their comparability were studied in a quantitative approach. Based on these extensive analyses of methodologies the study provides empirical results for road infrastructure and congestion costs in the EU-member states in Switzerland for the year 1994. (A)
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