Scope and objectives

• Document the full costs imposed by a "base case" transportation system that is required to accommodate projected regional growth. These include agency costs (capital and operating costs), user and congestion costs, safety costs, and environmental costs.
• Document the incidence of transportation costs, i.e. investigate whether – under the existing transportation system and existing tax mechanisms – some locales are required to cross-subsidize the development of transport capacity and services of other locales.
• Identify and investigate costs of alternative delivery methods to the current transportation system.

Research team [top]

Gerard McCullough, Dept of Applied Economics
E-mail: gmccullo@apec.umn.edu
Web page: http://www.apec.umn.edu/faculty/gmccullo/

David Anderson
No longer associated with the University

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Research report [top]

The Full Cost of Transportation in the Twin Cities

The Distribution of Transportation Costs in the Twin Cities Region