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    29.
    Sep.
    2025

    Professor Gernot Sieg in "The Guardian" about green waves for Cyclists

     

        The Guardian reports on green waves for cyclists with the help of IVM studies.    

    29.
    Sep.
    2025

    Habilitation Dr. Jan Wessel   

     

    Following a successful colloquium, the Faculty Council of the Department of Economics at the University of Münster has granted Dr. Jan Wessel the authorization to teach (venia docendi) for economics. The IVM congratulates Dr. Jan Wessel and is happy that he will continue to be involved in the IVM as a private lecturer.

    01.
    Jul.
    2025

    Federal Minister of Transport, Patrick Schnieder, MdB, has reappointed Professor Gernot Sieg as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board 

     

    Federal Minister of Transport, Patrick Schnieder, MdB, has reappointed Professor Gernot Sieg as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Transport for another six-year term.
    24.
    Mar.
    2025

    E-Bikes in trend: Impact on mode choice and CO2 reduction

     

    In their new article "Electrifying choices: How electric bicycles impact on mode choice and CO2 emissions", Thomas Hagedorn, Marlena Meier and Jan Wessel analyze (i) the influence of e-bike ownership on transport mode choice and (ii) how a change in e-bike ownership affects CO2 emissions in Germany using longitudinal data from household surveys from 2016 to 2022. The results of the mixed multinomial logit model (MMNL model) show that the change in e-bike ownership significantly affects travel behavior. The net emissions savings per person after acquiring an e-bike amount to 526.9 kg CO2 per person and year, which is roughly 6.6% of the average annual total CO2 emissions per capita in Germany. The article is published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.

    27.
    Jan.
    2025

    Vehicle Value Externality

     

    Gernot Sieg from the University of Münster and Berthold U. Wigger from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) introduce the vehicle value externality as a previously unacknowledged cost of car traffic. Unlike established externalities such as emissions or congestion, the vehicle value externality arises from the impact of vehicle value on accident damages. By developing a model linking insurance premiums to this externality and applying it to German car traffic data, the annual aggregate cost are estimated at 10 billion euros in 2021.Since this externality has not been internalized by policy makers so far, too expensive cars are bought in Germany and therefore insurance premiums for cars are too high. The article is published in the journal Economics Letters.

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