Re: Environmental and economic effects of Speed Limits
Hey, I know this may be a little late, but you might try the traffic forum: www.trafficforum.de . I can't make any promises, but it might be useful. At least the java applets on the links page are fun to play with Best regards, jsh __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
Re: Environmental and economic effects of Speed Limits
Eric Crampton wrote: They offer a program encouraging people to fight traffic tickets. Members who challenge their speeding tickets in court and lose are compensated for the cost of their ticket by the Association. While one might expect adverse selection to bankrupt the organization (or to make them change their policy), it's still going strong I suppose they don't pay the higher insurance premiums - probably 80-90% of the full amount you pay for a traffic offense. -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason University http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] He wrote a letter, but did not post it because he felt that no one would have understood what he wanted to say, and besides it was not necessary that anyone but himself should understand it. Leo Tolstoy, *The Cossacks*
Re: Environmental and economic effects of Speed Limits
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Bryan Caplan wrote: I suppose they don't pay the higher insurance premiums - probably 80-90% of the full amount you pay for a traffic offense. They offer 2 policies: under the first one (cheaper) they pay your ticket if you lose. You pay the fine and submit the receipt; they reimburse. Under the Premium option, they will provide you with a grant of the amount of the ticket the second it is issued, then will pay the ticket if you fight in court and lose. The grant is intended for use in developing one's defense, etc. The premium option is $120/yr, and has no maximum number of tickets that will be eligible for the grant. Sure, most of the cost of the ticket is in the insurance premium, but should still expect adverse selection problems. On the other hand, benefits are only payable if you have a valid driver's licence when you get your ticket; presumably, folks who would run the system into larger losses lose their licences before they can impose too severe a burden -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason University http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] He wrote a letter, but did not post it because he felt that no one would have understood what he wanted to say, and besides it was not necessary that anyone but himself should understand it. Leo Tolstoy, *The Cossacks*
Environmental and economic effects of Speed Limits
Dear Armchairs, I'm looking for recent studies of environmental and economic effects of speed limits. Who knows something about that topic? Steffen
Re: Environmental and economic effects of Speed Limits
Charles Lave of UC Irvine has done a lot of work on the economics of speed limits - he had an AER paper a few years ago. I doubt that there is much of an environmental effect - the main environmental effect is due to congestion not speed limits. Alex Tabarrok
