Reduction Potential of External Costs of Motorized Individual Mobility by the Promotional Programme VEL 2 in the Canton Ticino

Vermeidungspotenzial von externen Kosten des motorisierten Individualverkehrs am Beispiel des Förderprogramms VEL 2 im Kanton Tessin

Investigators
Roman Rudel, Silvia Banfi, Loa Buchli, Thomas Rotondo

Time Frame
8/2003 – 12/2004

Funding
SVI, ASTRA

Abstract
The research project intends to quantify - in the context of the ongoing promotional programme VEL 2 in the Canton Ticino – the share of external costs, which can be saved by the use of individual electric and other efficient vehicles. The project starts with an analysis of the existing studies on external costs and evaluates the possibilities to apply them to the present example. On this basis those approaches will be chosen, which seem to fit best to the conditions of the Canton Ticino. The project will present estimates of the external as well as private costs per vehicle and unit of driven distances, in order to offer to the consumer a comprehensive basis to compare the different cost components of individual mobility. Furthermore, the significance of the internalisation of external costs in the environmental debate will be discussed with different stakeholders. Finally, we will use the results of these discussions and include them in the conclusion concerning the integration of external costs for the proposed bonus/malus-system and formulate policy recommendations for the succeeding programme VEL 3.