Design and Effects of Road Pricing: Effectiveness, Efficiency and Acceptability from a Multidisciplinary Perspective
Overview
Background & policy context:
Road pricing can be seen as one of the market-based traffic control measures able to influence travel behaviour in order to alleviate congestion on the roads. During the last years a lot of research has been done regarding the possibilities and impossibilities of road pricing. Against this background the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management asked a consortium of researchers with different backgrounds to provide a multidisciplinary perspective on pricing policies for road transport.
Objectives:
This research project aimed to summarise the main scientific insights on the design and impacts of road pricing policies, from a multidisciplinary perspective: economics, traffic engineering, psychology, geography and environmental sciences.
Effectiveness, efficiency and acceptability were the main criteria considered, and were discussed in relation to the various design options that exist for the definition of road pricing policies and revenue allocation methods.
Methodology:
This was a literature review study.
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