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A geography of moral hazard: Sources and sinks of motor-vehicle commuting externalities

Abstract

Motor-vehicles are responsible for harms to health that are not directly experienced by individual drivers - such as air pollution and risk of injury to pedestrians. In addition to their direct effects on health, these harms also represent a moral hazard since drivers are not required to consider their effects as part of their decision to drive. We describe an approach for estimating sources of motor-vehicle commuter externalities as a means of …

Authors

Yiannakoulias N; Bland W; Scott DM

Journal

Health & Place, Vol. 29, , pp. 161–170

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

September 2014

DOI

10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.07.008

ISSN

1353-8292