Analysis of Impacts of Road Maintenance on Road Transport Demand and Macro Economy

The aim of this paper is to develop a practical model which can analyze impacts of road maintenance and fuel tax rate on road transport demand and macro economy. The model consists of two blocks. The first block is road transport block which expresses relationship among road maintenance level, fuel tax rate, travel cost, travel speed and transport demand. In the block, the authors define road accessibility as a reciprocal of average generalized time. The authors assume that road accessibility influences road transport demand, which changes road travel speed and road maintenance level. Furthermore, it is assumed that road maintenance level effects on travel cost and travel speed that changes road accessibility again. Another block is macro economy block that represents relation of road accessibility and macro economy. To examine impacts of road maintenance and fuel tax rates, the authors have conducted some empirical analyses. As results of empirical analyses, it is indicated that combination of decrease in fuel tax rates and infrequent road maintenance has possibilities to increase road transport demand and push up macro economy.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

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• Authors:
  • Sato, Toshihisa
  • Miyakawa, Masayuki
• Conference:
  • 11th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Berkeley CA, United States
  • Date: 2007-6-24 to 2007-6-28
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 21p
• Monograph Title: 11th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Empirical methods; Fuel taxes; Highway maintenance; Macroeconomics; Traffic models; Traffic speed; Travel costs; Travel demand
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01118809
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 22 2009 9:34AM