Infrastructural costs of goods transport This study allocates the costs of building, maintenance, governance and land use of road infrastructure in The Netherlands to transport categories in passenger and goods transport. Regarding the transport of goods a considerable number of weight categories are distinguished for trucks, opposed to earlier research. The results show that costs per kilometre allocated to the heavier truck categories are considerably higher than those allocated to the lighter truck categories. The reason behind this is that fairly large parts of building costs and maintenance costs are allocated to the different users on the basis of 4th power axle loads. Furthermore, large differences in average truck loading between the different weight categories have a significant influence on the results. Concluding we can state that when the distinction between weight categories that is made in this study is ignored, then a large part of the costs caused by heavy truck categories is allocated to lighter trucks. (Author/publisher)
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