Overcoming the Barriers to Implementing Urban Road User Charging Schemes

Urban road user charging offers the potential to achieve significant improvements in urban transport, but is notoriously difficult to implement. Cities need guidance on the range of factors to be considered in planning and implementing such schemes. This paper summarizes the results of a 3 year program which has collated evidence on the issues of most concern to cities. A state of the art report has provided evidence on 14 themes, ranging from objectives and design to implementation and evaluation. A set of 16 case studies has reviewed experience in design and implementation across Europe. The paper summarizes their findings, provides references to more detailed information, presents the resulting policy recommendations to European, national and local government, and outlines the areas in which further research is needed.

• Record URL:
  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12544-010-0026-1
• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • May, Anthony D
  • Koh, Andrew
  • Blackledge, David
  • Fioretto, Michela
• Publication Date: 2010-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 53-68
• Serial:
  • European Transport Research Review
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Springer Publishing
  • ISSN: 1866-8887
  • EISSN: 1867-0717
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/12544
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Literature reviews; Policy making; Road pricing; Urban areas; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road user charging
• Subject Areas: Highways; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01164147
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 29 2010 9:23AM