Congestion Pricing In Traffic Control

Author : Marco D. Sheehan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Congestion pricing
ISBN : NWU:35556039569652

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Congestion Pricing in Traffic Control by Marco D. Sheehan Pdf

Congestion costs highway users billions of dollars every year. Although policymakers have adopted a variety of strategies for reducing or mitigating congestion, relatively little attention has been paid to policies to promote more efficient use of the highway system. One such policy is congestion pricing, under which drivers are charged a higher price for use of a highway at times or places with heavy traffic and a lower price in the opposite circumstances. This book explains how congestion pricing works, reviews the best available evidence on projects that make use of such pricing in order to assess the benefits and challenges of the approach, and discusses federal policy options for encouraging congestion pricing. Congestion pricing also can be linked to strategies to improve mobility by making alternatives to the private automobile, such as subways, buses or commuter rail service, more attractive during peak periods. The revenues generated by such pricing have sometimes been used to pay for improvements in public transportation systems. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

Author : José A. Gómez-Ibáñez,Kenneth A. Small,National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309056691

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Road Pricing for Congestion Management by José A. Gómez-Ibáñez,Kenneth A. Small,National Cooperative Highway Research Program Pdf

"The synthesis describes the experience of several foreign countries that have used road pricing, or congestion pricing, as a means to manage congestion. The synthesis contains dicussions of the policy, equity, and implementation issues associated with congestion pricing. Several of the schemes described were planned or implemented as methods to increase roadway funding rather than for congestion management, but have had the effect of changing travel patterns."--Avant-propos.

Author : Georgina Santos
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780080545462

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Road Pricing by Georgina Santos Pdf

Traffic congestion affects towns and cities everywhere and in some places it is regarded as one of the most urgent and important problems in need of a solution. Road pricing is undoubtedly recognised as an effective traffic demand management tool. The recent London congestion charging scheme seems to be showing that public and political opposition is not insurmountable. Thus, the ghost that prevented the introduction of a policy supported by transport economists for over 80 years seems to have disappeared or at least, weakened.The book contains twelve papers useful to different types of audience, such as researchers and postgraduate students, civil servants, policy makers and consultants. The first part is mainly theoretical and concentrates on second-best congestion pricing including pricing in urban contexts, the impact on the performance of the road network, optimal locations and charge levels, dynamic aspects such as time variation of tolls, potential impacts of road pricing on costs and service quality of public transport buses, and efficiency costs and transport sector effects of different types of pricing when they guarantee a balanced budget per mode.The second part contains chapters that describe the schemes in place around the world such as Singapore, Norway, London, and the US. The volume is an update of the state of the art on the subject and the first one to have been written and appear after the London scheme was implemented and to contain an assessment of its preliminary impacts.

Author : European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789282101506

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Managing Urban Traffic Congestion by European Conference of Ministers of Transport Pdf

Offers policy-oriented, research-based recommendations for effectively managing traffic and cutting excess congestion in large urban areas.

Author : Börje Johansson,Lars-Göran Mattsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401109802

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Road Pricing: Theory, Empirical Assessment and Policy by Börje Johansson,Lars-Göran Mattsson Pdf

Road pricing (tolls, etc.) as a means of generating revenue for infrastructure investment has become a major policy option in both Europe and North America. It can also be used as a policy in the management of traffic demand and flow, environmental objectives, and optimal resource allocation as regards the size of investments. Road pricing is assumed to be able to solve many problems simultaneously -- congestion control, pollution reduction, and investment financing. This volume assembles and assesses theoretical knowledge, empirical results and experiences of actual road pricing. In addition, the impact of new information technology on future policy formulation is considered.

Author : Kenneth J. Button,David A. Hensher
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0080435955

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Handbook of Transport Systems and Traffic Control by Kenneth J. Button,David A. Hensher Pdf

This book discusses transport systems and the implementation of related public policy - a relevant topic with contemporary traffic congestion, environmental intrusion, transport safety, and budget issues. It is a resource for both experienced researchers and those new to the field.

Author : Kenneth Button,E. T. Verhoef
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024323250

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Road Pricing, Traffic Congestion and the Environment by Kenneth Button,E. T. Verhoef Pdf

Examines the regulation of road traffic congestion in theory and practice, within the context of social and political feasibility. Looks at Pigouvian taxes, the most popular policy prescription among economists, and considers a variety of other policies which may be more politically and socially acceptable. Other subjects discussed include congestion and urban development, congestion pricing and road infrastructure investment, and road pricing and urban sustainability. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Börje Johansson,Lars-Göran Mattsson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556023550395

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Road Pricing: Theory, Empirical Assessment and Policy by Börje Johansson,Lars-Göran Mattsson Pdf

Road pricing (tolls, etc.) as a means of generating revenue for infrastructure investment has become a major policy option in both Europe and North America. It can also be used as a policy in the management of traffic demand and flow, environmental objectives, and optimal resource allocation as regards the size of investments. Road pricing is assumed to be able to solve many problems simultaneously -- congestion control, pollution reduction, and investment financing. This volume assembles and assesses theoretical knowledge, empirical results and experiences of actual road pricing. In addition, the impact of new information technology on future policy formulation is considered.

Author : Harry Ward Richardson,Chang-Hee Christine Bae
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781848441453

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Road Congestion Pricing in Europe by Harry Ward Richardson,Chang-Hee Christine Bae Pdf

. . . this book is an interesting collection of papers on the topic of road congestion pricing. . . The reader should find this collection to be both interesting and informative, but also quite thought-provoking. . . The papers also provide some very useful information about projects that have not worked or have not been implemented for various reasons and lessons that can be learnt from failures to implement and failures of pricing schemes. Peter R. Stopher, International Planning Studies In February 2003, the London Congestion Charging Scheme was introduced and in 2006 a similar policy was introduced in Stockholm. In both cases automobile traffic entering the cordon declined by about 20 percent. This book evaluates these and other similar programs exploring their implications for the United States. While there is increasing interest in road pricing in the US in many individual states, the motivation is often highway financing rather than congestion relief. The contributors argue that the prospects for extensive implementation in the US remain uncertain. Nevertheless, this book illustrates that the European experience suggests political feasibility is much less of a hurdle than was once considered and that congestion pricing would have a significant impact in reducing traffic as it did in Europe. This study s value lies in the fact that it examines road pricing in the real world and not simply from a theoretical viewpoint. As a comparative study it will appeal to both policymakers and academics in transportation economics and planning, urban economics, planning and economic geography.

Author : Transportation Research Board
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 0309055040

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Curbing Gridlock by Transportation Research Board Pdf

Author : Alberto Bull,United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean,Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit
Publisher : Santiago, Chile : United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : City traffic
ISBN : NWU:35556035567320

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Traffic Congestion by Alberto Bull,United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean,Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit Pdf

Author : Carol T. Everett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Roads
ISBN : WISC:89096569561

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Pricing of Highway Services by Carol T. Everett Pdf

Author : Siriphong Lawphongpanich,Donald W. Hearn,Michael J. Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780387296456

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Mathematical and Computational Models for Congestion Charging by Siriphong Lawphongpanich,Donald W. Hearn,Michael J. Smith Pdf

Rigorous treatments of issues related to congestion pricing are described in this book. It examines recent advances in areas such as mathematical and computational models for predicting traffic congestion, determining when, where, and how much to levy tolls, and analyzing the impact on transportation systems. The book follows recent schemes judged to be successful in London, Singapore, Norway, as well as a number of projects in the United States.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Congestion pricing
ISBN : UCBK:C101103859

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Congestion Pricing by Anonim Pdf

Author : C. Jensen-Butler,Brigitte Sloth,Morten M. Larsen,Bjarne Madsen,Otto A. Nielsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540771500

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Road Pricing, the Economy and the Environment by C. Jensen-Butler,Brigitte Sloth,Morten M. Larsen,Bjarne Madsen,Otto A. Nielsen Pdf

Economic growth and globalisation create traffic growth, leading to congestion, which again increases travel times and costs. Road pricing is an instrument that may efficiently reduce the negative impacts. This volume is a collection of research papers on the use of road pricing. The focus is on passenger transport, and the papers cover a wide range of approaches, including theoretical modelling and empirical studies of road pricing experience from different cities.