Urban Transport Policies: The Dutch Struggle with Market Failures and Policy Failures

Piet Rietveld

No 04-126/3, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: Transport is characterised by market failures that are of particular importance in urban settings. This paper reviews market failures and policy failures in The Netherlands for various transport markets, including road transport, public transport and biking. Special attention is paid to parking problems, and possibilities to cope with these by pricing measures. It is demonstrated that in some cases parking externalities lead to non-convexities that make pricing policies less attractive. In that case parking restrictions are called for. A general shift is observed from national to municipality policy initiatives. In terms of both effectiveness and social and political acceptability, the municipal policies definitely score better.

Keywords: parking; infrastructure; pricing; bicycle use; market failure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R41 R42 R48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-11-19
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