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Energy efficiency and transportation Location: Auditorium O: Terje Hansen Session Chair: Beaumont Schoeman, University of Hamburg | |
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Pigovian Transport Pricing in Practice 1: University of Hamburg, Germany; 2: University of Basel, Switzerland; 3: FAIRTIQ, Switzerland; 4: University of Oregon, USA; 5: Swiss TPH, Switzerland; 6: City of Lausanne, Switzerland; 7: ZHAW, Switzerland; 8: ETH Zurich, Switzerland We implement Pigovian transport pricing in a field experiment in urban agglomerations of Switzerland over the course of 8 weeks. The pricing considers external costs from climate damages, health outcomes and congestion and varies across time, space and mode of transport. The treatment reduces the external costs of transport of the treated individuals by 4.5% in the short run. The main underlying mechanism is a shift away from driving towards other modes, such as public transport, walking and cycling. Providing information about external costs alone changes behavior of altruists, but not for the whole sample. We estimate the welfare improvements from such a policy to be around 90 US dollars per person and year, which is 1.75 times as large as the effects of a fuel tax that generates the same revenue. | |