Title: Evaluation of urban road transport pricing regimes
Abstract: Congestion is one central problem of inner city traffic as congestion occurs whenever transport demand exceeds road capacity - with congestion costs by time losses, incremental emissions and accidents. As described in literature, road pricing schemes might be efficient if applied properly. However, there are several barriers against urban road pricing, concerning politico-economics, equity, technology and cost. Several pricing schemes are already introduced, i.e. the London Congestion Charge. In large parts of the literature, the scheme is considered a success, as data from London shows that overall city traffic declined by 16% since implementation. However, one of the central limitations of the system is the number plate recognition technology. As the charge does not vary by time-of-day, realized traffic reduction concerns off-peak periods and not peak times. This contribution discusses the London example together with the cases of Stockholm and Milano and uses a data envelopment analysis (DEA) comparative efficiency evaluation scheme.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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