EVALUATING PRICING POLICIES FOR INTERREGIONAL TRANSPORT IN BELGIUM. IN: REFORMING TRANSPORT PRICING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: A MODELING APPROACH

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to study the welfare implications of various transport pricing and regulatory policies in Belgium for the reference year 2005. All empirical results reported herein were derived using a 2-region model of a hypothetical federation consisting of Belgium and the 'rest of Europe', taken as a single entity. Although the focus of the current chapter is mainly on Belgian transport policies, extension of the model allows an illustration of the interrelation between international transport flows and pricing policies. Moreover, it allows for the reporting of the implications of strategic behavior by individual countries if policies are not federally coordinated.