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Exploring Road Pricing: Tools, Benefits, and Challenges for Urban Transport

This article discusses various road pricing tools such as fuel taxes, vehicle taxes, and tolls, highlighting the increasing importance of electronic methods. It argues that road pricing is beneficial for managing congestion and covering external costs associated with road traffic. Effective road pricing can lead to reduced congestion, lower pollution, and increased safety, while also generating funds for public transport and infrastructure improvements. The article also addresses the need for careful urban planning and community acceptability, emphasizing realistic alternatives and compensation measures.

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Exploring Road Pricing: Tools, Benefits, and Challenges for Urban Transport

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  1. Some thoughts on Road Pricing

  2. 1. Road pricing tools • Fuel taxes, paying car parks, vehicles taxes, road tolls • More and more electronic tools • Distinction: • calculation (by km, per hour) • time of the day (peak time) • area • funds allocation

  3. 2. Road pricing is beneficial • Better to charge than not to do in order to • cover external costs • manage congestion • Road traffic => problems => synergy needed • road pricing • enforcement • urban planning • How to use the income from the tolls ?

  4. 3. Multiple effects • Road pricing system well done • = less congestion and more income • Less congestion • = less pollution, more safety, more space • More income • = public transport, new roads, less taxes

  5. 3. Multiple effects • Without toll system • reallocation of space very difficult • no extra income • Urban areas: careful with urban spreading

  6. 4. Acceptability • Improvements to the transport system • Some realistic alternatives • Compensations

  7. Thank you ! Any comments ?

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