The handbook assembles best practice methods to estimate and monetize the external costs generated by transport activities. It concentrates on air pollution, noise, climate change, congestion and accidents in road transport which constitutes the overwhelming share of transport external costs, but it also considers other external costs and other modes of transport. It brings together the key parameters to apply these methods as well as examples of unit values per travelled distance according to typical traffic situations, such as air pollution cost of lorries in urban areas. The handbook will help policy makers and other interested parties to value external costs when developing policy measures for internalisation. It shows that external costs depend strongly on parameters such as vehicle characteristics (EURO standards), location (urban or interurban) and the period of time (peak, off-peak and night time). Final report can be downloaded here. Further information: Report 2 and Report 3.
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