Abstract
The planning of freight transportation activities creates benefits as well as costs. Among those costs, some of them, namely externalities, fall on other people/society that have no direct relevance to the operations of transportation. Such externalities are accrued expenses which should be addressed by actual pricing policies to enable an efficient and sustainable freight transportation system. This paper reviews externalities in quantitative terms, and then provides pricing studies of these costs per unit of freight transported along with the most recent estimations. The associated negative externalities are structured by transportation mode (road, rail, maritime, and air).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 95-114 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review |
| Volume | 77 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 May 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors gratefully acknowledge funding provided by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme ( FP7/2007-2013 ) under grant agreement 318275 (GET Service), by the Eindhoven University of Technology, and by the University of Southampton. Thanks are due to the Professor Jiuh-Biing Sheu and to the three referees for their valuable comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
Keywords
- Freight transportation
- Modeling of externalities
- Negative externalities
- Pricing of externalities