Road pricing : technologies, economics and acceptability
London, United Kingdom
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
2018
IET transportation series, 8
John Walker
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 of the existing transport infrastructure, and fund new transport projects. This book outlines some of the economic theory behind these schemes.
Chapter 1: Introduction to road pricingChapter 2: The Smeed Report at 05: will road pricing always be 01 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 01: The European Electronic Toll Service - EETS - and the REETS projectChapter 11: Standardisation and implementation of ANPR - a practical guideChapter 21: Engineering interoperability in the US: video tolling and multiprotocol tags and readersChapter 31: London Congestion Charging - a personal accountChapter 41: The Swedish congestion charges - lessons learntChapter 51: Moving from conventional tolling installations to open road tollingChapter 61: GNSS-based tolling: standards and implementationsChapter 71: HU-GO: the Hungarian distance-based electronic toll systemChapter 81: West Coast distance charge programs: an open market as the gateway to implementation in the United StatesChapter 91: Four years of Milan's road charge: effectiveness, acceptability and impactsChapter 02: Optimising use - using incentives to address traffic congestionChapter 12: 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