Autor según el artículo: Bernardo, V., Fageda, X., Flores-Fillol, R.

Departamento: Economia

Autor/es de la URV: Flores Fillol, Ricardo

Palabras clave: Urban tolls Urban areas Pollution Low emission zones Congestion

Resumen: The great weight that the car has as a means of mobility in large cities generates significant negative externalities both in terms of pollution and congestion. The goal of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of low emission zones (LEZs) and to compare it with the existing results in literature on the effectiveness of urban tolls. First, we build up a theoretical model that departs from De Borger and Proost (2012), who study the effects of urban tolls on congestion, by incorporating pollution into the analysis and LEZs as an alternative (quantity-based) policy measure. Then we perform an econometric analysis taking advantage of a unique and extremely original panel of large European urban areas over the period 2008–2016, using data on congestion from TomTom and data on pollution (PM2.5) from environmental sciences. We conclude that LEZs can curb pollution. They are particularly effective in highly polluted cities, when they are applied to a wide area of the city, and/or when they are stringent in the type of restricted vehicles. Instead, LEZs are ineffective in mitigating congestion. This is a very relevant result, given the growing importance of LEZs in Europe.

Áreas temáticas: Transportation Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences Economics, econometrics and finance (miscellaneous) Economics Ciencias sociales

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Direcció de correo del autor: ricardo.flores@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-3506-1634

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-19

Volumen de revista: 26

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012221000265?via%3Dihub

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Economics Of Transportation. 26-27 (100221):

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Bernardo, V., Fageda, X., Flores-Fillol, R. (2021). Pollution and congestion in urban areas: The effects of low emission zones. Economics Of Transportation, 26-27(100221), -. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecotra.2021.100221

DOI del artículo: 10.1016/j.ecotra.2021.100221

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2021

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications