Urban Road Pricing has been proposed many times as a powerful instrument to fight
congestion in urban traffic, but has systematically faced a hostile political envirionment, due …

Traffic congestion affects towns and cities everywhere and in some places it is regarded as
one of the most urgent and important problems in need of a solution. Road pricing is …

Urban traffic problems are now a key political issue in most European countries; in terms of
congestion, road safety, and the environment. The response to date in many cities has been …

Striking a balance between societal benefits and costs of transportation lies at the heart of
transport planning and transport systems analysis. Increased transport and urbanization …

This paper draws on the results of various projects undertaken by the European
Commission regarding transport pricing reform in Europe. It begins with an account of …

Urban road pricing schemes have been designed in order to reduce externalities generated
by traffic. Main impacts regard: time loss due to congestion, local pollution, noise …

This overview article proposes a revised approach to improve the urban realm, against the
backdrop of new models for delivering transport services as digitalisation, collaborative …

This paper reviews a variety of examples of road pricing covering a wide range of sites,
objectives, and implementation strategies. Objectives range from raising revenues to …

This paper describes a framework for analysing the acceptability of pricing changes in the
transport sector. This framework is based on Rawls' theory of justice and makes reference to …

While many academics and practitioners in the transport field now consider the case for
introducing road user charging to be a very strong one, as a mechanism for making drivers …