Evaluation of the Impacts of Urban Road Pricing on Social and Spatial Inequalities: The Lyon Case Study (France)

In the context of “sustainable” urban development, this paper evaluates the impact of setting up traffic toll zones, cordon pricing, on the evolution of inequalities based on a study of the conurbation of Lyon. It simulates a new charging policy implemented by imposing an urban road pricing to analyze its impacts on the evolution of inequalities with respect to the current situation used as reference. Four different types of indicator are used to achieve this. Besides “specific” indicators of inequalities such as those of Gini, Theil and Atkinson, the gravity-based measurement of accessibility is also considered to enlighten public decision-makers on the evolution of inequalities. In agreement with the literature, the results show that the different indicators of inequality produce highly contrasted and sometimes contradictory results on both the scale of the zone and that the city. Furthermore, although an improvement of accessibility was observed, notably for the central zones, it is the first ring (adjacent to the toll zone) that will be affected most negatively by the toll. This is confirmed by the three indicators. Lastly, the indicators of Theil and Atkinson alone show that introducing a toll can lead to reducing inequalities for the zones furthest away.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE25 Congestion Pricing.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Souche, Stephanie
  • Mercier, Aurelie
  • Ovtracht, Nicolas
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
• Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 22p
• Monograph Title: TRB 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Case studies; Equity; Road pricing; Tolls; Urban highways
• Geographic Terms: Lyon (France)
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01476399
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 13-0898
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 21 2013 9:14AM