The full cost of intercity highway transportation

The full cost of intercity highway transportation

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Article ID: iaor19991899
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 3D
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 207
End Page Number: 223
Publication Date: Jul 1998
Journal: Transportation Research. Part D, Transport and Environment
Authors: ,
Keywords: cost benefit analysis
Abstract:

In this paper we review the theoretical and empirical literature on the cost structure of the provision of intercity highway transportation and specify and estimate our own cost functions. We develop a full cost model which identifies the key cost components and then estimate costs component by component; user costs, infrastructure costs, time and congestion costs, noise costs, accident costs, and pollution costs. The total long run average cost is $0.34 per vehicle km traveled. The single largest cost category is freeflow travel time. While the marginal cost of infrastructure is higher than its average cost, indicating that new construction is increasingly expensive, the marginal cost of driving (user fixed and variable costs) is less than the average cost, indicating that by increasing travel the user can spread his fixed cost of a vehicle over more trips without penalty.

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