European Association
of Environmental and Resource Economists
Summer School 2009
Summer School on
Economics, Transport and Environment
Venice, July 5th-11th, 2009
Transport is considered one of the main sources of externalities. Important
externalities are air pollution, noise, congestion, wear and tear, but
also accident, congestion and schedule delay costs imposed upon others.
It is proposed to focus the summer school not only on environmental
problems in a very narrow sense but also to study the interrelation
with the other types of externalities. Transport externalities need
a somewhat different analysis from most other externalities in the sense
that the level of the externalities feeds back into the level of the
activity: increased congestion and accident levels decrease participation
in transport activities.
Lecturers: Stef Proost, Center for Economic Studies, Faculty of Economics ,
KULeuven, Belgium (Coordinator)
Topic: Transport externalities in general equilibrium and partial equilibrium
models (t.b.c.)