Traffic congestion is a bane of modern city life. Transportation economists have long
supported road pricing as a tool for controlling congestion and the idea is slowly coming into …

Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing offers the most extensive examination
to date of the relationship between congestion tolls and highway capacity in the long run …

This paper reviews literature on the optimal design of pricing policies to reduce urban
automobile congestion. The implications of a range of complicating factors are considered; …

This special issue on congestion pricing provides background by assessing recent events
and future prospects and by analyzing the nature of possible implementation. Areas of …

Abstract will manually Highway congestion increases the cost of travel in most urban areas
of the United States. Policy makers have tried to reduce congestion by building more …

Pricing congested roads generally produces efficiency gains. Unless toll revenue is carefully
distributed, however, road pricing would also make most drivers worse off, particularly those …

However, the imposition of a road price is only a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for
obtaining an optimal level of road use. Many proponents (and some opponents) seem to …

ECONOMISTS, POLICY-MINDED ADMINISTRATORS, AND PLANNERS ARE TURNING
INCREASINGLY TO CONGESTION TOLL PRICING AS A PRACTICAL AND EFFICIENT …

This article examines urban highway congestion pricing in the instance in which it is not
possible to levy a congestion toll on a major portion of the urban road system. This case is …

Road congestion pricing is back on the transport policy agenda. As the irresistible force of
increasing traffic demand meets the immovable object of fixed road space in urban areas …