Road transportation has an important role in development of countries. Positive effect of this transportation on economy is obvious. But beside positive effect of road transportation, it has negative and costly effect such as traffic and air pollution. Science road transportation (based on statistic data) is the major consumer of Fossil Fuels in Iran energy basket, it is important to calculate the Consumption of energy and environmental impact of this consumption. In this research, by considering of air pollution criteria in road transportation, the environmental cost has been calculated and research hypothesizes have been tested. Hypothesis test in this research show that, there isn’t significant effect of expansion of road transportation on air pollution and on the other hand it has been showed that the mean of growth rate of added value of road transportation is greater than the mean of growth rate of social cost. The third hypnosis has been focused on considering the effect of growth rate of added value of road transportation in GDP on social cost.
kalantar K, panahi M. Economic Assessment of Environmental Implication and Social Costs of Energy Use in Iran Road Transport Sector. QEER 2016; 11 (47) :181-204 URL: http://iiesj.ir/article-1-388-en.html