This is a long and intense lecture with quite a lot of preparation material. During the lecture we will have an array of four special guests discussing different aspects of transport policy. We start with a special guest from Volvo cars: Mattias Johansson, Head of Public Affairs, Volvo Cars.

After that Liv Lundberg from Rise will present some of her work.

The third speaker will be Charles Komanoff joining us from New York. He will speak about how they finally managed to get Congestion Fees passed in New York. Please see some of the preparatory material above. Finally the 4th Speaker will be Rasmus Parsmo. He took this course 15 years ago and just defended his thesis this week, concerning policy instruments for marine pollution.

Note that there is a common thread here. We want to reduce emissions from vehicles and reduce congestion.

We can regulate fuel content, vehicle emissions, and traffic flows. We can also price them. There are interesting details like what is the price elasticity of demand, what is the incidence of taxes - who really pays, whether a policy pro or regressive, and what are the politics of implementation. The basics are already in the video clips and the literature provided, but the class will give us an opportunity to discuss and, in particular, to hear the opinions of four people who spend their lives on the environmental economics of various transport issues.

Reading: SC, Ch. 16-19

Sterner & Coria, chapter 16.pdf

Sterner & Coria, chapter 17.pdf

Sterner & Coria, chapter 18.pdf

Sterner & Coria, chapter 19.pdf

AI podcast summarizing the literature:

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