Road Pricing: Is It Needed, Is It Possible, Is It Inevitable (original) (raw)

The Road Pricing Controversy - Review Of TheRelated Argumentation And Proposal

1970

The severe environmental problems that modern European cities face (pollution, noise, accidents, congestion) are caused by the excessive use of the private car. To cope with them, great emphasis is given in the improvement of public transport and the encouragement of walking and cycling. Moreover, Road Pricing is a new economic approach of the transport sector, that can be summarised as the internalisation of the external costs of transport. According to it, the users of transport modes will have to pay for the cost their activity imposes to the environment and society. This is to be implemented in the urban scale through the electronic urban tolls. The representatives of the road transport branch strongly oppose to Road Pricing, and broad argumentation has been developed in the recent political debate. These representatives consider that road transport sector is already overtaxed, and even put into question the matter of external costs. Also, they predict serious negative impacts i...

Road pricing: old beliefs, present awareness and future research paths

International Journal of Transport …, 2001

The theoretical evolution of academic beliefs and practical policymakers' perceptions of road pricing (from now on rp) as an instrument of efficient and equitable allocation of resources are described and analyzed. The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the logical evolution of the theory behind rp in order to understand why there has been scarce policy impact in spite of a long theoretical tradition. In so doing the fundamental issues that will have to be tackled by future research in order to generate consensus around this policy instrument are brought to the fore.

Next Generations of Road Pricing: Social Welfare Enhancing

This paper offers a broad overview of road pricing from a social welfare perspective. I first examine two common objectives of road pricing: congestion management and profit making. My goal is to provide a guideline explaining how to promote a social-welfare-enhancing road pricing scheme. To this end, we should: (i) consider and improve public transportation systems by providing more environment-friendly transport options; (ii) include tolling profits in our welfare analysis (as opposed to what economists suggest) since residents are the real owners of roads not users, and since some users are from outside the region and so might not be excluded from analysis; and (iii) search for a holistic approach that takes into account system-wide impacts, disutility to users who change their travel behavior (i.e., switch to public transportation, shift their travel, or do not travel at all), and the impacts on land use, employment, and residents.

Acceptability of road pricing and revenue use in the

2006

This paper presents the empirical results of a questionnaire among Dutch commuters regularly experiencing congestion, asking for their opinion (in terms of acceptance) on road pricing measures and revenue use targets. We find that road pricing is in general not very acceptable and that revenue use is important for the explanation of the level of acceptance. Road pricing is more acceptable when revenues are used to replace existing car taxation or to lower fuel taxes. Moreover, personal characteristics of the respondent have an impact on support levels. Higher educated people, as well as respondents with a higher value of time and with higher perceived effectiveness of the measure, seem to find road pricing measures more acceptable than other people. When we ask directly for the acceptability of different types of revenue use (not part of a road pricing measure), again abolition of existing car (ownership) taxes receives most support whereas the general budget is not acceptable.

Public acceptability of road pricing

parliament.uk

The findings Conclusion Final Report Introduction Aims and objectives 1 Background 1.1 What do we already know? The findings 2 Public acceptability of a problem needing to be solved 3 Public acceptability of the need for demand management 4 Public acceptability of the principle of road pricing 5 Public acceptability of the specific road pricing schemes 6 Public acceptability of the detail and deisgn of the road pricing scheme 7 Impact of the media, family, friends and the research on the acceptability of road pricing 8 Conclusion Annex One 1.1 Introduction Attitudes towards Case Studies 1.2.2 Initial Thoughts Workshop-Developing a Driver through a Narrative Conclusions