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on Transport Economics |
| By: | Congressional Budget Office |
| Abstract: | In 2017, spending from the Highway Trust Fund exceeded revenues from taxes on highway users by $13.5 billion. A tax of 1 cent per mile on commercial trucks’ travel would have raised $2.6 billion if imposed on all such trucks and $1.6 billion if limited to those with trailers, CBO estimates. Higher rates would have yielded nearly proportionally higher revenues. Implementing such a tax would cost more than raising the existing tax on diesel fuel, however. And such a tax would raise the price of shipped goods and would cause a shift of some freight traffic from truck to rail. |
| JEL: | H22 H25 L92 R41 R48 |
| Date: | 2019–10–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cbo:report:55688&r=all |
| By: | Boyan KAVALOV (European Commission – JRC); Andrius KUCAS (European Commission – JRC); Filipe BATISTA E SILVA (European Commission – JRC); Mert KOMPIL (European Commission – JRC); Jean-Philippe AURAMBOUT (European Commission – JRC); Carlo LAVALLE (European Commission – JRC) |
| Abstract: | This study aims to add technical insights to the debate about overcoming the cross-border obstacles to growth and jobs in the EU internal border regions. It proposes new border geography by defining distinct drive time zones (30, 30-60, 60-90, 90+ minutes) to terrestrial paved border crossing points. The drive time zones are delineated by applying network analysis algorithms to the TomTom Multinet (2017) road network data, based on governing speed limits for passenger cars and assuming free-flow i.e. without congestions and/or border crossing delays. Paved bridges and river ferries are also included. At the next stage, the study looks at the population changes during the period 2001-2011 in the adjacent to the borders "30 minutes" drive time zones and compares these changes with the respective country population trends. The analysis encompasses thirty one couples of EU border areas and three complex border regions, where more than two EU border areas are included. The analysis is executed in the context of the Knowledge Centre for Territorial Policies (KCTP) of the European Commission. |
| Keywords: | Cross-border regions and cooperation, drive-time border zones, border population change |
| Date: | 2019–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc116859&r=all |
| By: | Uri Dadush |
| Abstract: | China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an international trade and development strategy. Launched in 2013, it is one of the ways China asserts its role in world affairs and captures the opportunities of globalisation. The BRI has the potential to enhance development prospects across the world and in China, but that potential might not be realised because the BRI’s objectives are too broad and ill-defined, and its execution is too often non-transparent, lacking in due diligence and uncoordinated. |
| Keywords: | China, Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), Xi Jinping, Ancient Silk Road, World Trade Organization (WTO), Five-point plan, Steel, Infrastructure, Energy |
| Date: | 2019–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ocp:ppaper:pn-ifri19-41&r=all |
| By: | Giulio Mellinato |
| Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to investigate the process of politicization of the highest levels of the global commercial connectivity network, during its formative decades. The paper highlights the role played by the differences among the national approaches, along with some of the key mechanisms driving the development of the maritime sector during the considered period. As the preferred instrument for the development of the national system of long-range maritime connectivity, the shipping subsidies were diffused almost everywhere. However, the interactions with the institutional, sociotechnical and commercial national environments produced very dissimilar outcomes in different countries, with direct reflections in the construction of the commercial connectivity conditions, acting indirectly also over the evolution of the geopolitical scenario. |
| JEL: | F02 F14 F52 N40 N70 |
| Date: | 2019–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mib:wpaper:421&r=all |
| By: | Krystian Duczek (University of Szczecin) |
| Abstract: | The author of the poster will present issues that are raised in front of the European governments regarding the completion of cooperation in the construction of the China's One Belt One Road Initiatives that has an impact on increasing the import and export between Europe and China. The author will also present the possibilities to reduce the trade deficit of imports and exports between Europe and China. Will discuss the issue related to the construction of a transshipment port in Lodz Poland and the impact of this project on the stronger position of Poland in the European Union and the measurable benefits of creating a "transshipment center and warehouse for Europe". The author will also undertake analysis of the recent political and economic decisions which are having a strategic significance on the prospective development of the China's One Belt One Road Initiatives. |
| Keywords: | International business, The New Silk Road, International policy, China, Transportation |
| Date: | 2019–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sek:iacpro:9411013&r=all |