EXTERNAL COST

The tool provides users the possibility of calculating the monetary value of climate change and accident costs on selected origin/destination routes for freight transport. Climate change and accident costs were chosen because they were omitted from those external costs that road freight may be charged for in the 2011 revision of the 'Eurovignette Directive'. Other external costs (e.g. air pollution, noise and congestion) are not currently included (and neither is passenger transport covered), but it is intended that future development of the tool will add in additional external cost categories... External Transport Cost - This tool calculates the external costs of transport in Europe due to climate change and accidents