Project
TRANSPRICE - Trans Modal Integrated Urban Transport Pricing for Optimum Modal Split
Funding origin:
European
STRIA Roadmaps:
Smart mobility and services (SMO)
Duration:
Start date: 01/01/1996,
End date: 01/12/1998
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
The major environmental problems caused by road traffic relate to disturbance by noise and air pollution. As a consequence of this, the need of shifting the modal split from car to modes of transport more environmentally friendly, like the use of bicycles, public transport and improved pedestrian areas, has become a central aim of research. Strategies of urban transport pricing can help to achieve optimum modal split in urban areas.
Objectives:
TRANSPRICE aims at addressing the issue of integrated trans-modal urban transport pricing towards achieving optimum modal split in urban areas at Pan-European level. The project involves analysis and evaluation for urban sites throughout Europe, covering a wide range of cities.
Methodology:
The project will involve:
- Investigation of technical and financial options for integrated trans-modal pricing in urban areas and their potential acceptability by the public and politicians. This will include: congestion charging, multi-travel payment cards, road pricing revenue allocation issues, as well as legal and institutional constraints.
- Analysis of pricing strategies, tariffs and generalised cost structures, including journey times, by mode of transport, in conjunction with the current modal split. The project will also ascertain the determinants of mode choice, in terms of transport pricing and the setting up of a common analytical framework for several alternative trans-modal pricing and integrated payment scenarios.
- Analysis of potential user response and road traffic operational/socio-economic/financial/behavioural/land use/environmental and energy effects of several demand management and mode choice-related pricing measures.
- Evaluation of trans-modal pricing and payment scenarios and actions.
- Dissemination of project results, including dissemination to Central and Eastern Europe.
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