Projects
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Transport policy instruments in the era of autonomous vehicles in individual motorized transport
The advent of automated and autonomous transport is a challenge for transport policy. We explore whether a world with autonomous cars challenges the current knowledge on the effectiveness and efficiency of economic and regulation instruments of transport policy. We apply two different approaches: the first is an aggregate economic approach of transport demand we use to study optimal policies while the second is a spatial computable general equilibrium approach to understand spatial and microeconomic issues. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as two individual research grants (June 2020 - May 2024).
Willingness to pay for road safety – conceptual study and pilot survey
The consistent assessment of road safety policies involves the monetization of safety benefits. This requires a shadow price for safety or more precisely, the willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce the risk of being killed or injured in a road traffic accident. The aim of this project is to develop a concept for determining the WTP of road users and to test it in a pilot survey. This research was funded by the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt). (finished)
Evaluating measures on climate protection and adaptation to climate change in agglomerations (EMPACCA)
The EMPACCA project was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and conducted between 2011 and 2014. The Hamburgisches WeltWirtschafts Institut (HWWI) was the project partner. We used and expanded the regional computable general equilibrium model. (finished)