Review of Evidence on the Effects of Road Pricing
This paper will discuss how many national and local governments are seriously considering road pricing as a policy measure to raise revenues and reduce congestion and emissions from road transport. There has been a number of countries, states and cities that have actually implemented such measures. This paper will consider the effectiveness of road pricing by reviewing road pricing studies worldwide. The paper will focus on the observed effects of schemes actually implemented. Road pricing can be effective, however much depends on the objectives and the design of the scheme. The paper determines that road pricing schemes, where there are alternative routes and where the charges are likely to vary considerably by time of day, will cause substantial changes in route choice and departure time choice. A substantial increase in public transport use will only occur if public transport will be an attractive alternative for many of the origin-destination combinations as seen in the London and Stockholm Congestion Charging systems .
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Corporate Authors:
Association for European Transport (AET)
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Authors:
- Ubbels, Barry
- de Jong, Gerard
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Conference:
- European Transport Conference, 2009
- Location: Leiden Leeuwenhorst Conference Centre , Netherlands
- Date: 2009-10-5 to 2009-10-7
- Publication Date: 2009
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: 25p
- Monograph Title: European Transport Conference, 2009 Proceedings
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Congestion pricing; Departure time; Origin and destination; Periods of the day; Policy making; Revenues; Road pricing; Route choice; Traffic congestion
- Identifier Terms: London congestion charging scheme; Stockholm congestion charging trial
- Subject Areas: Environment; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01349553
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 10 2011 10:43AM