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Valuing public investments to support bicycling
Project funded by own resources |
Project title |
Valuing public investments to support bicycling |
Principal Investigator(s) |
Hintermann, Beat
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Organisation / Research unit |
Departement Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Public Economics / Public Finance (Hintermann) |
Project start |
01.01.2013 |
Probable end |
01.12.2014 |
Status |
Completed |
Abstract |
We develop a framework for assessing the net benefits of investments to promote bicycling, which explicitly accounts for internal costs of bicycling. We apply our model to eight Swiss cities using data from the Swiss national travel survey and find that increasing the level of bicycling by reducing internal costs leads to inframarginal benefits that exceed the net benefits from the additional bicycling. We further find that Swiss cyclists only partially internalize health benefits, which increases the benefits from infrastructure investments but also implies that there is scope for “soft” measures that inform users about health benefits of bicycling. |
Keywords |
Cost-benefit analysis, health impact assessment, bicycle, valuation, internal cost, health benefit, VSL |
Financed by |
University funds
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Art der Publikation |
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2736410 |
Götschi, Thomas; Hintermann, Beat |
Valuing public investments to support bicycling |
0303-9692 |
Swiss journal of economics and statistics |
Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) |
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