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Report from the World Bank covering methodological work on the appropriate concept of road use cost; on the derivation of road use cost from road network and traffic data under different maintenance regimes; on the corresponding rules for charging cost to users; on pure taxation of transport; on the price-level and distributional impact of transport taxes, taken on their own or relative to other taxes. It includes also detailed empirical work, to estimate some of the relationships, and as required for a full-dress application of the methodologies to the case of Tunisia.

Report from the World Bank covering methodological work on the appropriate concept of road use cost; on the derivation of road use cost from road network and traffic data under different maintenance regimes; on the corresponding rules for charging cost to users; on pure taxation of transport; on the price-level and distributional impact of transport taxes, taken on their own or relative to other taxes. It includes also detailed empirical work, to estimate some of the relationships, and as required for a full-dress application of the methodologies to the case of Tunisia.