WHY ARE EFFICIENT TRANSPORT POLICY INSTRUMENTS SO SELDOM USED? IN: ACCEPTABILITY OF TRANSPORT PRICING STRATEGIES

Rising demand for road space from more congested roads exceeds the given supply; the excess demand makes bottlenecks an everyday experience for an ever increasing number of road users. More adequate pricing on the scarce resource of roadway capacity through marginal congestion cost road pricing should be used to a greater extent. However, many people are opposed to such pricing schemes. This chapter discusses 10 reasons for such opposition that emanate from economic, psychological, and sociopolitical aspects. Thereafter, 2 proposals are offered on how to overcome the kind of deadlock often experienced. The first suggests the directly democratic participation of the citizenry; the second proposes functionally organized democratic traffic districts.

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• Authors:
  • Frey, B S
• Conference:
  • MC-ICAM Conference, Acceptability of Transport Pricing Strategies
  • Location: Dresden, Germany
  • Date: 2002-5-23 to 2002-5-24
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 63-75
• Monograph Title: ACCEPTABILITY OF TRANSPORT PRICING STRATEGIES

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bottlenecks; Economic and social factors; Economic efficiency; Equilibrium (Economics); Highway capacity; Marginal costs; Road pricing; Traffic congestion; Transportation policy; Travel demand; User charges
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; Policy; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00971277
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0080441998
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 9 2004 12:00AM