Dr Georgina Santos

Visiting Research Associate
University Lecturer, School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University

Email: georgina.santos@tsu.ox.ac.uk

About Me

Dr Georgina Santos is a Visiting Research Associate at the Transport Studies Unit in the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford. She did her first degree at Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina, her MSc at University College London, and her PhD at Downing College, University of Cambridge.

She worked as a Research Assistant at the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge from October 1997 till August 2001. After that she held a British Academy post-doctoral fellowship hosted by the same department and a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, between 2001 and 2004. She was a Departmental Lecturer in Transport and the Environment at the TSU from 2004 until 2010. Georgina Santos is also a research fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford.

Current Research

Georgina's current research falls under three themes:

Emission trading in the road transport sector (in collaboration with Dr David Bonilla);
Comparison of price and quantity controls to reduce CO₂ emissions in the road transport sector; and
Harmonisation of transport taxes and duties, to include all modes across all EU countries.

Teaching

Outreach

Info forthcoming...

Publications

Edited Book

Santos, G. (ed.) (2004) Road Pricing: theory and evidence, Oxford: Elsevier.

Journal articles

Santos, G. (2010) Introduction. Special issue on 'Road Transport Externalities, Economic Policies and Other Instruments for Sustainable Road Transport'. Research in Transportation Economics, 28(1): 1.
Santos, G., Behrendt, H., Maconi, L., Shirvani, T. and Teytelboym, A. (2010) Part I: Externalities and economic policies in road transport. Research in Transportation Economics, 28(1): 2-45.
Santos, G., Behrendt, H. and Teytelboym, A. (2010) Part II: Policy instruments for sustainable road transport. Research in Transportation Economics, 28(1): 46-91.
Santos, G. and Robin, M. (2010) Determinants of delays at European airports. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 44(3): 392-403.
Mendes, L. and Santos, G. (2008) Using economic instruments to address emissions from air transport in the European Union. Environment and Planning A, 40(1): 189-209.
Santos, G. (2008) The London congestion charging scheme. Brookings Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 177-234.
Santos, G. and Bhakar, J. (2006) The impact of the London congestion charging scheme on the generalised cost of car commuters to the city of London from a value of travel time savings perspective. Transport Policy, 13(1): 22-33.
Santos, G. and Fraser, G. (2006) Road pricing: lessons from London. Economic Policy, 21(46): 264-310.
Santos, G. and Catchesides, T. (2005) Distributional consequences of gasoline taxation in the United Kingdom. Transportation Research Record, 1924: 103-111.
Santos, G. (2005) Urban congestion charging: a comparison between London and Singapore. Transport Reviews, 25(5): 511-534.
Santos, G. (2004) Urban congestion charging: a second best alternative. Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 38(3): 345-369.
Santos, G. and Shaffer, B. (2004) Preliminary results of the London congestion charging scheme. Public Works, Management and Policy, 9(2): 164-181.
Santos, G. and Rojey, L. (2004) Distributional impacts of road pricing: the truth behind the myth. Transportation, 31(1): 21-42.
Santos, G. (2002) Double cordon tolls in urban areas to increase social welfare. Transportation Research Record, 1812: 49-55.
Santos, G., Newbery, D. and Rojey, L. (2001) Static vs. demand sensitive models and the estimation of efficient cordon tolls: an exercise for eight English towns. Transportation Research Record, 1747: 44-50.
Santos, G. (2000) Road pricing on the basis of congestion costs: consistent results from two historic UK towns. Transportation Research Record, 1732: 25-31.
Newbery, D. and Santos, G. (1999) Road taxes, road user charges and earmarking. Fiscal Studies, 20(3): 103-132.

Working papers

Newbery, D. and Santos, G. (2002) Estimating urban road congestion costs. CEPR Discussion Paper 3176, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London.
Santos, G. and Newbery, D. (2001) Urban congestion charging: theory, practice and environmental consequences. CESifo Working Paper 568, Centre for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich.
Santos, G., Rojey, L. and Newbery, D. (2000) The environmental benefits from road pricing. DAE Working Paper 0020, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, October.

Book chapters

Santos, G. (2010) Peak loads. In, Button, K., Vega, H. and P. Nijkamp (eds.) A Dictionary of Transport Analysis, Edward Elgar, pp. 300-302. ISBN: 9781843763758.
Santos, G. (2008) The London congestion charging scheme, 2003-2006. Chapter 8 in, Richardson, H.W. and Bae, C.C. (eds.) Road Congestion Pricing in Europe: Implications for the United States. Edward Elgar.
Santos, G. (2008) The London experience. Chapter 14 in, Verhoef, E. (ed.) Pricing in road transport: A multidisciplinary perspective. Edward Elgar.
Santos, G. (2006) Traffic congestion and road pricing. In, Allington, N. and J. McCombie (eds.) Cambridge Essays in Applied Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Santos, G. (2004) Urban road pricing in the UK. In Santos, G. (ed.), Road Pricing: Theory and Evidence, Oxford: Elsevier.
Santos, G., Li, W. and W. Koh (2004) Transport policies in Singapore. In Santos, G. (ed.), Road Pricing: Theory and Evidence, Oxford: Elsevier.
Santos, G. (2004) Congestion costs and road pricing in English towns. In de Palma, A. and E. Quinet (ed.), Transport Tarification, Paris: Economica.

Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford