Abstract: This chapter describes how, in Europe and Asia, most proposals for urban road pricing involves the use of cordon or are charging, in which one or more boundaries are drawn, with charges to cross the boundary (using cordons schemes as in Singapore and Stockholm) or to drive within it (using area schemes as in London). Despite over 40 years of research into such schemes, there is little technical advice on where best to place such boundaries. Most designs are based on a mix of professional and political judgment, with little or no assessment of whether alterative locations would be more effective. In practice, the performance of any road pricing cordon or boundary will be affected by the combined effects of a reduction in traffic entering the area and an increase in traffic bypassing it. While congestion will be reduced within the area, it might well be aggravated outside it. Since these conflicting impacts will depend on both the topology of the road network and pattern of demand for its use, it is difficult to offer general advice on cordon location. All that is known is that the benefits of road pricing, usually measured in terms of welfare economic impacts, are critically dependent on the choice of cordon.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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