Road pricing: technologies, economics and acceptability

✍ Scribed by Walker, John

Publisher: The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 645
Series: IET transportation series 8
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Road pricing is increasingly being implemented around the world to combat congestion, curb carbon emissions, compensate for falling revenues from fuel duty, improve the efficiency of the existing transport infrastructure, and fund new transport projects. This book outlines some of the economic theory behind these schemes.

Abstract:

Road pricing is increasingly being implemented around the world to combat congestion, curb carbon and other polluting emissions, compensate for falling revenues from fuel duty, improve the efficiency Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Chapter 1: Introduction to road pricingChapter 2: The Smeed Report at 50: will road pricing always be 10 years away?Chapter 3: Types of road pricing, and measuring scheme cost and performanceChapter 4: We can't get there from here: ecofiscal policies to address traffic congestion in Canadian citiesChapter 5: The public acceptability of road pricing - a US case studyChapter 6: How road pricing was implemented in Singapore, and planned technology augmentationsChapter 7: Communication and governance challenges in Greater Manchester's 'congestion charge' referendumChapter 8: Case studies of communication and consultation strategies for road pricing schemesChapter 9: Road pricing standardisationChapter 10: The European Electronic Toll Service - EETS - and the REETS projectChapter 11: Standardisation and implementation of ANPR - a practical guideChapter 12: Engineering interoperability in the US: video tolling and multiprotocol tags and readersChapter 13: London Congestion Charging - a personal accountChapter 14: The Swedish congestion charges - lessons learntChapter 15: Moving from conventional tolling installations to open road tollingChapter 16: GNSS-based tolling: standards and implementationsChapter 17: HU-GO: the Hungarian distance-based electronic toll systemChapter 18: West Coast distance charge programs: an open market as the gateway to implementation in the United StatesChapter 19: Four years of Milan's road charge: effectiveness, acceptability and impactsChapter 20: Optimising use - using incentives to address traffic congestionChapter 21: Summary and future prospects for road pricing: open research areas, future work and conclusionsChapter 22: AfterwordAppendix A: Glossary of acronyms and technical termsAppendix B: References and further reading

✦ Subjects

Congestion pricing.;Roads -- Finance.;Electronic Road Pricing System.;Toll roads.;Transportation and state.;intelligent transportation systems.;road pricing (tolls);traffic engineering computing.

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