THE "RULE OF THREE": A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE POLITICAL PROBLEM OF COMPETING OBJECTIVES FOR ROAD PRICING. IN: URBAN TRANSPORT

Twenty-five years ago the Smeed Report said that road pricing was technicaly feasible and environmentally desirable. Current technical developments in electronics and concerns with the environmental effects of traffic, reinforce that case. There are two main parts to the argument. First, it has always been argued that road pricing would increase economic and transport efficiency. This is valid but some crucial points of the proof of that argument have never been given much attention when using the classical diagrams and equations. Unfortunately, they are the parts that have political implications, and this explains why implementing road pricing has been so politically difficult. Secondly, exactly the same political difficulties, if re-analyzed, provide a different specification of the objectives of road pricing. This will resolve many of the new problems, and also create the basis of a completely new alignment of political and pressure groups that can unify rather than divide those who can benefit.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Originally Published in: Traffic Engineering and Control, 30 (10), October, 495-7.
• Corporate Authors:

  Edward Elgar Publishers

  William Pratt House, 9 Dewey Court
  Northampton, MA  United States  01060-3815
• Authors:
  • Goodwin, P B
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: p. 247-249
• Serial:
  • Classics in Transport Analysis
  • Volume: 8
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefits; Customer satisfaction; Electronics; Environmental impacts; Political factors; Pressure; Public opinion; Public relations; Public transit; Road pricing; Technological innovations; Traffic congestion; Urban transit; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00973573
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1840645504
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 18 2004 12:00AM