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Abstract

Despite the economic importance of the road transport sector, there is no systematic cross-country evidence on the sector’s efficiency. This paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing the social efficiency of the road transport sector, including non-market inputs – such as travel time – and negative outputs – such as accidents and emissions. This framework is then used to analyse efficiency in 32 OECD countries. Data issues in terms of availability, quality and comparability are significant, and the empirical results have to be interpreted with caution. Nevertheless, there is fairly robust evidence that social efficiency is low in a number of OECD countries. The low efficiency suggests that substantial room for input savings exists in these countries. A framework for analysing how road transport policies may impact performance is developed, but a scarcity of data on policy settings currently limits the scope for empirically connecting the two. Infrastructures de transport routier: performance et politiques economiques Malgre l’importance economique des transports routiers, les donnees sur l’efficience du secteur ne font l’objet d’aucune comparaison systematique entre les pays. Dans ce document, il est presente un cadre conceptuel pour l’analyse de l’efficacite sociale du secteur des transports routiers, englobant des intrants non marchands (comme les temps de trajet) et des extrants negatifs (comme les accidents et les emissions). Il est ensuite recouru a ce cadre pour comparer la situation dans 32 pays de l’OCDE. D’importants problemes se posent en termes de disponibilite, de qualite et de comparabilite des donnees et les resultats empiriques doivent etre interpretes avec circonspection. Neanmoins, des elements assez convaincants attestent la faiblesse de l’efficacite sociale dans un certain nombre de pays de l’OCDE, ce qui donne a penser qu’il y existe de grandes possibilites d’economies d’intrants. Il a ete entrepris de definir des principes de base a suivre pour analyser les consequences que les politiques des transports routiers peuvent avoir sur la performance, mais, faute de donnees suffisantes sur les cadres d’action, il n’est actuellement guere possible d’etablir un lien empirique entre les deux analyses.


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https://ideas.repec.org/p/oec/ecoaaa/1016-en.html,
https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:1016-en,
https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/1696905140
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Published on 01/01/2013

Volume 2013, 2013
DOI: 10.1787/5k4ddxjvpfr5-en
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license

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