Urban Road Pricing
Title | Urban Road Pricing PDF eBook |
Author | Martin J. Whittles |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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As more and more cities consider introducing urban road pricing schemes, this book describes, compares and contrasts arguments for and against using this transport policy instrument.It investigates the acceptability of various forms of road pricing schemes by examining and contextualising actual schemes and hypothetical scenarios. The resulting analysis provides a sociological theory of acceptability, carefully grounded in arguments about road pricing, which demonstrates how professional discourses diverge from publicly acceptable arguments. It also suggests ways in which consensus can be reached between the various road pricing options.
Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion
Title | Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Arnott |
Publisher | CESifo Book |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Microscopic models, rather than macroscopic ones that are too simplified and too aggregated, they argue, will lead to the analysis of a wider and more creative range of policies, at least some of which should work well and be politically acceptable."--Jacket.
Road Pricing, Traffic Congestion and the Environment
Title | Road Pricing, Traffic Congestion and the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Button |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Examines the regulation of road traffic congestion in theory and practice, within the context of social and political feasibility. Looks at Pigouvian taxes, the most popular policy prescription among economists, and considers a variety of other policies which may be more politically and socially acceptable. Other subjects discussed include congestion and urban development, congestion pricing and road infrastructure investment, and road pricing and urban sustainability. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Implementation Procedures for Pricing Urban Roads
Title | Implementation Procedures for Pricing Urban Roads PDF eBook |
Author | Kiran Bhatt |
Publisher | Urban Institute Press |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Urban Road Pricing
Title | Urban Road Pricing PDF eBook |
Author | Edoardo Croci |
Publisher | |
Pages | 45 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | |
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Urban road pricing schemes have been designed in order to reduce externalities generated by traffic. Main impacts regard: time loss due to congestion, local pollution, noise; contribution to climate change caused by emissions of GHGs, pavement costs and road damages, increase in accidents risks, extra-fuel consumption, decrease in quality of life. Moreover road pricing schemes generate public revenues.The paper performs a comparative evaluation of the three main experiences of urban road pricing in Europe: London (in operations since 2003), Stockholm (in operations since 2007, after a period of trial in 2006) and Milan (in operations since 2008, with a shift from pollution to congestion charge in 2012). Since their launch, the schemes have been adjusted in terms of amount of charge, area of application and other features.The schemes have been able to reduce negative externalities generated by traffic, such as accidents, congestion and emissions, up to different levels. A comparative analysis of the three schemes is provided. Determinants of differences in the effectiveness of the schemes are evaluated with a particular focus on elasticity of use of private vehicles to charge.The results can be useful to design well targeted congestion charge schemes and to assess their efficacy.
Road Pricing
Title | Road Pricing PDF eBook |
Author | Georgina Santos |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2004-07-31 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 0080545467 |
Traffic congestion affects towns and cities everywhere and in some places it is regarded as one of the most urgent and important problems in need of a solution. Road pricing is undoubtedly recognised as an effective traffic demand management tool. The recent London congestion charging scheme seems to be showing that public and political opposition is not insurmountable. Thus, the ghost that prevented the introduction of a policy supported by transport economists for over 80 years seems to have disappeared or at least, weakened.The book contains twelve papers useful to different types of audience, such as researchers and postgraduate students, civil servants, policy makers and consultants. The first part is mainly theoretical and concentrates on second-best congestion pricing including pricing in urban contexts, the impact on the performance of the road network, optimal locations and charge levels, dynamic aspects such as time variation of tolls, potential impacts of road pricing on costs and service quality of public transport buses, and efficiency costs and transport sector effects of different types of pricing when they guarantee a balanced budget per mode.The second part contains chapters that describe the schemes in place around the world such as Singapore, Norway, London, and the US. The volume is an update of the state of the art on the subject and the first one to have been written and appear after the London scheme was implemented and to contain an assessment of its preliminary impacts.
Urban Road Pricing: Public and Political Acceptability
Title | Urban Road Pricing: Public and Political Acceptability PDF eBook |
Author | Martin J. Whittles |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2017-11-22 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1351772775 |
Title first published in 2003. As more and more cities consider introducing urban road pricing schemes, this book describes, compares and contrasts arguments for and against using this transport policy instrument. It investigates the acceptability of various forms of road pricing schemes by examining and contextualising actual schemes and hypothetical scenarios. The resulting analysis provides a sociological theory of acceptability, carefully grounded in arguments about road pricing, which demonstrates how professional discourses diverge from publicly acceptable arguments. It also suggests ways in which consensus can be reached between the various road pricing options.