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Parking economics

In many Australian cities an attempt has been made to regulate levels of parking by controlling levels of on- and off-street parking.  The dominant trend has been to heavily restrict on-street parking but to keep that which is available priced at relatively low levels. The resulting [...]

Traffic accident externalities

Background. Traffic accident costs are a significant component of total road transport costs.

I have been examining proposals for introducing distance-based car insurance charges as a way of addressing traffic accident issues as well as environmental externalities associated with road use. There are arguments for [...]