Pricing in Road Transport: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

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Pricing in Road Transport: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

Author: Erik Verhoef, Michiel Bliemer,.. | Size: 1.23 MB | Format: PDF | Quality: Original preprint | Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub | Year: 2008 | pages: 327 | ISBN: 1845428609

Most transport analysts would agree that road pricing is a potentially effective instrument for curbing transport and transport-related problems. Likewise,many policy documents, from local authorities, as well as national and international governments, identify road pricing as one of the key cornerstones of contemporary transport policies, and support this by a variety of arguments, ranging from effectiveness and economic efficiency to considerations of fairness and transparency in the financing of infrastructure (the ‘user-pays principle’). But public acceptability often seems to be lagging behind, so that actual implementations, although growing in number, remain scarce. Nevertheless, with the introduction of the London congestion charge in 2003, and the implementation of charging in Stockholm in the Summer of 2007 (see also Chapter 10), one might hypothesize that urban road pricing is entering a new phase in its history, and will soon spread over Europe and other parts of the world.

This book aims to provide a multidisciplinary view on the effectiveness and acceptability of pricing in road transport. After a general introduction to road pricing, four topics will be addressed. First, the authors elaborate on the possible behavioural responses to road pricing. Second, illustrate how model studies may assist in designing optimal road-pricing policies, given different policy objectives. Third, describe the acceptability of different types of road-pricing policies by the general public and firms, and indicate how such policies may affect geographical accessibility. Finally, discuss to what extent road pricing has actually proved to be effective, and indicate the prospects for implementing transport infrastructure pricing in Europe.

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