PROGRESS - Pricing ROad use for Greater Responsibility, Efficiency and Sustainability in citieS
Overview
Background & policy context:
The overriding transport concern in many European cities is the increasing level of private car traffic and the negative impacts that this has on the urban environment: congestion, accidents, poor air quality, health impacts, etc. In order to reverse this trend and promote more sustainable mobility in cities, policies are being driven forward on two basic fronts:
- management of the demand for private car use, through various traffic management strategies
- and the development of alternative mobility services - intermodal public transport, car sharing, information system, etc.
The PROGRESS project sets out to demonstrate these potential benefits and address the concerns.
Objectives:
The overall objective of PROGRESS is 'to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness and acceptance of integrated urban transport pricing schemes to achieve transport goals and raise revenue.'
The objective was approached by focusing on 6 project goals:
- To provide effective co-ordination between the demonstration sites, and with the thematic network;
- To develop and demonstrate integrated urban transport pricing schemes, based on the concept of marginal-cost pricing, in real urban situations;
- To develop and assess the political, economic and social framework required for the implementation of urban transport pricing;
- To evaluate the impact and effectiveness of these demonstrations;
- To support the sister project CUPID by providing policy results at the local level for wider dissemination;
- To develop material for dissemination of the demonstration and evaluation results at the local and national level, and at the European level.
Methodology:
The project focused on real-life and trial demonstrations of urban pricing schemes to achieve transport and social goals. Within the eight cities, seven demonstrated various methods of road user charging through cordons, areas, zones, and distance and time gased scheme operation.
The technology employed ranged from license recognition based systems to transponder tags and satellite based systems.
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